"He's helped keep Black communities, like the one I live in, safer and stronger. He's done it with empathy and heart."
"We have a nation that has a proclamation that we are the free Nation, but we incarcerate more people than any other nation on the planet Earth."
"It's important for diversity to be represented on the bench. Experience is the life of the law."
"Isn't that the point? Like, what a crazy question: My race, does it matter?"
"This is a Jersey boy that I'll assure that will even make my friend from Louisiana, Senator Kennedy, proud."
"the idea that diversity is important to talk about, to have a criminal justice system that reflects the diversity of the population."
"That is why I recently introduced the Farmland for Farmers Act, which would prohibit these investment corporations from acquiring any additional U.S. farmland."
"Look, who controls our farmland is really important, and honestly my concern is also with who controls many other parts of our food system, including our seeds, meat processing, and grocery stores."
"I support legislation that would prevent foreign corporations, such as Smithfield, from continuing to purchase U.S. farmland."
"I believe that our national food security depends on the farmers who are working the land having an opportunity to own the land."
"I am suspect of these books being taken out of libraries and schools."