Political Quotes

“I want to ask the American people, I want to ask Republican Senators: Who is a better guardian of the civil rights of African Americans when it comes to police reform--the NAACP or Mitch McConnell? If this bill were such a good path to reform, why wouldn't civil rights organizations from one end of America to another say: Go forward; maybe we will get something done. Because they know the bill is a ruse, and nothing will get done. That is the way it is designed. Whom do you believe when it comes to civil rights and police accountability--Mitch McConnell or the lawyer for the families of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor? Whom do you believe--the lawyer of the Floyd and Taylor families or Mitch McConnell, whom we have never heard speak on this issue on the floor until the last few weeks? These groups have been speaking about it for decades. The idea--the idea--that this bill is a step forward when it will lead to nowhere? It will not be. Mitch McConnell keeps saying you can cut the bill off when you don't get your 60 votes. What kind of solution is that, when it is a junky bill, when it is a bill that doesn't go far enough at all? Why don't we put a good bill on the floor that can pass? Let me read what the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights said. They have had a hand in crafting every piece of meaningful legislation passed in Congress in the last few years.…”