Political Quotes

“reserving the right to object, look, there are nuggets in the Senator's resolution--certainly recognizing that, overwhelmingly, law enforcement does an honorable and valuable job in our society. It is a tough job. The bad ones make it difficult for all the good ones. I would agree with that. But I have to be honest with you. There are also elements of this resolution that are not as straightforward as the gentleman would have you believe. First of all, the very first paragraph says that we were founded on universal principles of freedom, justice, and human equality. Of course, slavery existed at the time. There is no mention of America's original sin, which is slavery. Certainly we cannot think of slavery as human equality. Then, to go on to suggest in his third paragraph that we are morally committed to justice ``across all such differences, and protecting the God-given rights of all Americans under the law,'' well, I can tell you, in my home State of New Jersey and across the Nation, there are many Americans who clearly do not believe that we are morally committed to justice across all such differences. As a matter of fact, we saw that in how the majority responded to the George Floyd death and others across the Nation--a lot of rhetoric; very little reform. So we would be hard-pressed to believe that paragraph has legitimacy as well. Then the resolution reeks of supremacy, self-righteous illiberalism, manifest ignorance, and historical illiteracy.…”