Political Quotes

“over the weekend, the United States achieved an ignominious milestone. Five million Americans are confirmed to have contracted COVID-19--by far, the most in the world. Our country went from 4 million Americans having had the disease to 5 million in 17 days--only 17 days. One million Americans were infected in just 17 days. We have lost American businesses, American wealth, and an unbearable number of American lives--a number that will inevitably increase as the number of infections continues to rise. The brutal economic effect of the pandemic has spared no corner of our country. We are living through the greatest economic crisis since the Depression and the greatest health crisis since the Spanish flu in 1918. So it should not be hard to convince Republicans in the Senate and the White House to provide urgent and necessary relief to the American people. The $3.4 million in the Heroes Act was based on the country's needs, which is so large and so diverse. It is not a political position; it is what our country needs--its schools, its businesses, its renters, its homeowners, its essential workers, its post office, its elections, State and local governments, our healthcare system. Leader McConnell doesn't seem to understand this. He sees everything through a political lens. But we Democrats are looking at the real needs of people. They are large, and they come from many different places.…”