Political Quotes

“today the Senate will consider the nomination of a woman by the name of Miranda Du to be a U.S. district judge for the District Court of Nevada. I was very pleased to recommend this woman because she is such an experienced litigator and very proud Nevadan. Ms. Du has enormous love for the State and this country and a tremendous dedication to public service. Her story is about as inspiring as it gets, and it proves without any question the American dream is alive and well. Nevada's Asian Pacific population is less than 10 percent. But if confirmed, Ms. Du will be the first Asian American Federal judge in the history of the State of Nevada. Miranda Du left Vietnam when she was 8 years old with her family in a boat. She was one of the boat people. She was born in Vietnam. She and her family survived the war, and they left. They left voluntarily because they could not get out any other way. I said they left voluntarily--they sneaked out and got on a boat and took off. They wound up in Malaysia. She spent more than 2 years in a refugee camp in Malaysia--this little girl. She was then, with her family, taken to Alabama: Vietnam, Malaysia, Alabama. When she got there, she enrolled in an American school for the first time. She did not know how to speak English, and that is an understatement. But as a third grader, everyone recognized how smart she was. She picked up the language very quickly.…”