Political Quotes

“Mr. President, as I reflect on the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be Attorney General, one of the things that hits me is, when we look at the broad scope of how America has been moving forward in the last 100 years, the three big movements that have changed America have been the civil rights movement; the women's rights movement--women's suffrage, women's rights, women wanting freedom over their choices on reproductive rights; and then conservation and environmental rights, which have kind of changed everything since Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt and my father and Uncle Mo Udall, who served in the Congress. I grew up believing civil rights was something that was moving us forward, was inclusive, and was something where we really cared about every person. The job of the United States Senator is to represent your State. My State of New Mexico is majority-minority, very diverse, and I am very proud to speak out for the people of New Mexico and their civil rights. I have told many of them back home the story I learned through my father and through his public service, when he was a college student at the University of Arizona. Both he and my Uncle Morris Udall were at the University of Arizona in the lunchroom. Way back in the 1940s, the lunchroom was segregated so the Black students had to eat outside under the trees. They couldn't eat inside. My father and Mo had a friend, a young man by the name of Morgan Maxwell.…”