Political Quotes

“thank you. In a few minutes, the U.S. Senate is going to have an opportunity to condemn infanticide. One hundred U.S. Senators are going to have an opportunity to unanimously say the most basic thing imaginable, and that is that it is wrong to kill a little newborn baby. Every Senator will have the opportunity to stand for human dignity, to stand for the belief that in this country all of us are created equal, because if that equality means anything, surely it means that infanticide is wrong. Frankly, this shouldn't be hard. Politicians come to this floor every single day and talk about how they care for the poorest or the weakest or the most marginalized members of our society. In recent weeks, I have heard it stated this way in powerful, eloquent, and, from some ambitious Senators, very clear terms about human dignity. One of my distinguished colleagues recently on the campaign trail declared rightly ``that the people in our society who are the most often targeted by predators are also most often the voiceless and the vulnerable.'' Amen to that. Another Democratic Senator seeking the Presidency said they seek to ``build a country where no one is forgotten, no one is left behind.'' Amen to that. Giving words of hope and encouragement, a third Senator reminded us that ``no matter where you live in America . . . you deserve a path to opportunity.'' Amen to that.…”