Political Quotes

“Mr. President, what was just entered into the Record are references that are being made. They are awful. They are hateful. They are frightening. They are scary. I invite any of my colleagues to read these horrible acts, and I invite any Senator, Democrat or Republican, to come right down to this floor today and defend any one of them. It is an example of hate and prejudice. I don't believe anyone wants to defend hateful acts being committed in President-Elect Trump's name. It leads to one unavoidable conclusion. Many of our fellow Americans believe that Trump's election validates the kind of bullying and aggressive behavior Trump modeled on a daily basis. How do we teach our children that bragging about sexual assault is abhorrent if we rush into the arms of the man who dismissed it as ``locker room talk''? If we fail to hold Trump accountable, we all bear a measure of responsibility for normalizing his behavior. Here is a letter from a seventh grader from Rhode Island. She wrote the day after the election, and I will quote from the letter: I'm extremely scared, especially being a woman of color, that the president of the country that I was born and live in is making me feel unsafe when I usually don't feel unsafe. It is even scarier because this man who is now the president of the United States of America has said such rude, ignorant and disrespectful things about women and all different types of people and is now in charge of our country.…”