Political Quotes

“Just briefly, Mr. President, I know I was not scheduled to speak, but I do want to respond as one of the signatories of the letter. I associate myself with everything that the other signatories have talked about in terms of wanting to restore the Senate's tradition of extended debate on issues of grave importance to the American people. But let me be clear about the reason that I now support an adjustment to the longstanding rules of the Senate. It is because I never imagined, when I signed that letter, that not a single Member of the Republican Party would stand up for our democracy since January 6, when we saw an acceleration of State laws that would allow partisans to overturn the impartial count of an election. We need to address the issues that so many of us have talked about here. The people of New Hampshire, the people all across the country, they need us to address pressing issues like lowering the cost of prescription drugs or making it easy for families to afford childcare. But if we do not have a functioning democracy where people know that, when they vote, that vote will be impartially counted and upheld and that people who are defeated will accept defeat so that they can have an accountable elected representation in Washington, then there is no democracy. When I signed that letter, I never imagined that today's Republican Party would fail to stand up for democracy. I was raised by a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge.…”