Political Quotes

“No, it does not seem fair, I say to my friend from Massachusetts. It does not seem any more fair than a story I will tell the Senator, which he has heard me tell before. It is a story that is embedded in my heart and which has prompted me to speak out on these issues. Secretary Richardson and I visited a community center in Las Vegas. We were told to go in through the backdoor because there were people outside who were demonstrating. I say to my friend from Massachusetts, we decided that we would not going through the backdoor. These people that were demonstrating were good American people who were there saying: I am married to someone from Mexico, or El Salvador, or Guatemala. They were saying: We have children who have been born in this country. They have taken my husband's work card away from him. He can no longer make payments on our house, our car. Other people I talked to, they had lost their houses, they had been evicted from their homes, they had lost their jobs. And those jobs are not that easy to fill in Las Vegas. I say to my friend, I believe that justice calls out for this. We hear terms such as 'fairness' and 'social justice.' Those terms are spoken on this floor a lot. But sometimes they are only words. To the people Bill Richardson and I met with in Las Vegas, however, these are more than words.”