Political Quotes

“I want to start today by talking about some breaking news that may, at first glance, not seem relevant to today's proceedings but, in fact, is a perfect illustration of how broken this process is. We find ourselves in the middle of a pandemic that the Republican Party has never taken seriously enough, and it is a pandemic that is worsening by the day. According to Dr. Fauci, the nomination ceremony for Judge Barrett was a superspreader event. Today, the White House Chief of Staff conceded the White House is ``not going to control the pandemic.'' Yet last night we learned that several aides close to Vice President Pence have tested recently positive for COVID. We wish them and their families well. We wish the Vice President and his family continued health. But a normal response after being close to several people with COVID-19 would be to follow CDC guidelines and quarantine for everyone's safety, but this is not the case. In the same breath with which they announced that Vice President Pence was exposed, the White House said that he would keep on campaigning, comparing campaigning work to the work that doctors, nurses, firefighters, and police officers do. It is a puzzling claim, especially since the Vice President failed at the most important official duty in his portfolio-- the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Not only has the White House Coronavirus Task Force failed to keep the American people safe; it has even failed to keep the White House safe.…”