Political Quotes

“I rise today to oppose Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court and to ask my colleagues--Republicans and Democrats alike--to recognize exactly what is at stake here. The philosopher Nietzsche once said that if you stare long enough into the abyss, the abyss will stare back into you. My friends, we here in the U.S. Senate are staring into the abyss. What is staring back at us is a future in which the American people's trust in the Supreme Court is being irreparably damaged. To vote yes on Brett Kavanaugh is to send a message to every woman in America that your voice doesn't matter. If you risk everything--your security, your stability, your reputation--to come forward and speak truth to power about a sexual assault, they will call you credible. They will call you courageous. Yet they will not believe you. It is a message that says, if you have survived a sexual assault, don't bother telling anyone because you must be mistaken. This traumatic and unforgettable moment in your life never happened. It must have been someone else. My friends, to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh with what we now know would be to forever tarnish the credibility and reputation of the highest Court in our land. Here is what we know. We know Judge Kavanaugh faces multiple credible allegations of sexual assault.…”