Political Quotes

“just a few quick points. No. 1, no one is--we are not talking about, and the American people are not about qualifications. We are talking about views on issues. Do the American people want their healthcare taken away from them? Amy Coney Barrett has said that she disagrees with the decision to keep it. Do the American people--do American women want the right to choose taken away from them? Amy Coney Barrett, in the past, has said she would do that. Do the American people want to make it even harder to form a union so they might get some good pay? Amy Coney Barrett. How about gun safety? She is to the right of Scalia. The issue on Amy Coney Barrett is twofold, and nothing they say changes it. No. 1, her views on the issues are so far and so extreme that she does not represent even the views of the people in this body on the Republican side; and, No. 2, if they feel that the American people want her, let them vote and decide--the very same thing my friend from South Dakota and everyone else said with Merrick Garland. We know hypocrisy when we see it. We know contradictions when we see them. And on the bill--yes, let's debate it. But their bill is inadequate on testing, inadequate on small business, inadequate on schools. We went to school administrators.…”