Political Quotes

“I just have to say: We have been systemically excluded. We, who founded the oldest city in America before there was a United States of America; we, who ultimately were used as farm workers and discriminated against in the Bracero program; we, who were discriminated against when we voluntarily joined the Armed Forces of the United States to defend the Nation--we have been systematically excluded, not because this Senator said so but because the Smithsonian itself said so. And yet we are supposed to entrust the willful neglect that has taken place for more than three decades--taken place longer but acknowledged for three decades. Oh, no, we are somehow not systemically excluded. Believe me, we have been, and the only righteous way to end that exclusion is to pass this bill. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Utah.”