Political Quotes

“when parents send their kids to school, they rightfully expect that they will be safe and protected. Parents expect their kids to bring home knowledge, not polio. They expect them to share stories, not measles. They expect them to get smart, not smallpox. The reality is, this has been the case for decades because we have had vaccines to safely and efficiently keep students protected against these terrible, terrible diseases. Unfortunately, there is an extreme movement that relies on conspiracy theories that is trying to overturn commonsense, science, vaccination guidelines, and make children vulnerable to life-threatening illnesses. Earlier this month, Florida announced it was rolling back longstanding vaccine requirements--longstanding vaccine requirements-- for schools; requirements that have prevented the death of more than 1 million children in the last 30 years alone--1 million children. Think about that number. Protecting them from devastating diseases like measles, polio, and whooping cough. Removing these safeguards will cost kids' lives. There is no other way of putting it, parents will bury their children. It will bring us back to a time before vaccines, when parents prayed their child would be spared from polio so they wouldn't have to spend the rest of their life in an iron lung. That is not freedom. Living inside of an iron lung because someone refused to get a vaccine is anything but being free.”