Political Quotes

“I am so glad to come to the floor today to support my colleagues--the Presiding Officer, who is Senator Markey, and Senator Hirono--as you champion a great and necessary bill, the Right to Contraception Act. I am proud to stand with my colleagues, and I am so proud to support this bill. You know, today should have been a day of celebration. It was the 105th anniversary of the Senate's passing the 19th Amendment--one of the greatest amendments ever passed--granting women the right to vote under the U.S. Constitution. That was truly a proud moment for this Chamber and one of the greatest victories ever in the march toward women's equality--a march that New York proudly advanced. Upstate New York was a hotbed for the women's suffrage movement, including in places like Seneca Falls. But, on this 105th anniversary of the 19th Amendment's passage, we must confront the ugly truth that women, sadly, have fewer freedoms today than they did just a few years ago, because, a few weeks from now, America will observe a different anniversary, a much darker anniversary, that of the MAGA Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade. Thanks to that decision and thanks to the hard right's war on women, reproductive freedoms are at their lowest point in modern history, and who knows how far the hard right will go. Two years ago, the MAGA Court eliminated the protections of Roe. Tomorrow, it could be something else.…”