Political Quotes

“on one more issue, I was just over at the Rules Committee hearing. It is the first hearing I attended as majority leader because it was about S. 1, so important. And there, I showed--I showed my anger and frustration at what Republican legislatures are attempting to do throughout the country, take away people's right to vote, particularly people of color. You know, it has been more than 160 years since the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments abolished slavery, but Jim Crow is still with us. When a State says you need a notary public to cast an absentee ballot, it is no different than asking African Americans to guess the number of jellybeans in the jar before they vote. It is certainly no different in intent to deprive them of their right, their constitutional right to vote. And here we have Republican Senators making excuses for these vicious and often bigoted deprivations of the right to vote. They say that this is a State issue. No, Congress has passed numerous laws dealing with Federal voting rights, and, in fact, the Constitution explicitly says that the Congress has the ability and right to do it. And yet Republicans who lost the election, instead of doing what we should be doing in a democracy--when you lose, you are supposed to figure out why you lost and win over the voters you didn't, but they would just deprive the voters who voted against them of the right to vote.…”