Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman from New York for holding this Special Order. This is so important to speak to the Nation tonight, and we must keep raising our voices until the President backs off and fixes this. I am a Democrat, but I grew up in a conservative Republican family. What we all had in common was the idea that children were sacred--to be loved, to be cared for--and that families were the most important. I grew up in a large, large family with many, many kids and many adults around all the time. There wasn't any problem because we understood that the children were what brought us together. So here we are now. I am in Congress. I have been here for 8 years. Never, ever, did I think that I would have to stand on the floor of the House of Representatives and ask the President of the United States to stop locking babies up, to stop putting babies in jail. This plan, his executive order, is not going to solve this problem. How big is this problem? In addition to the more than 2,000 children and their parents--and we don't even know if the parents will ever be able to be reunited with their children because their parents have been deported--many of them--and separated, and they don't even know where their children are, which is just heartbreaking. I think we all saw those images the other night of little girls being brought under the cover of darkness, after midnight, in New York. Who is doing that to these little children who have done no harm to them?…”