Political Quotes

“I had a sleepless night last night as I put together in my mind where I think we are as a nation right now. We are a nation that, looking across our great land, showed unequivocally that we are in crisis. We are in a constitutional crisis. From people in our communities to people in this body, we are seeing grotesque--grotesque--attacks on our most sacred constitutional principles. As I sat last night, I found myself scrolling through words of our Founding Fathers, and something Madison said really stuck out to me: that power needs to be checked; power needs to be balanced; power derives its right from the consent of the governed, but power itself does not self-correct. I look at what is happening from the executive branch and see over and over again grotesque violations of our Constitution, and this body is doing nothing. The list of what is happening is clear. It is actually making headlines. It is not something that can be ignored. When you see the President of the United States taking power from the people, taking power from the executive, resisting the power of the judiciary, breaking the rule of law and nothing happens, it reminds me of Frederick Douglass: Find out just what a people will submit to, and that is the exact amount of injustice that will be heaped upon them.”