Political Quotes

“the Senate will soon acknowledge a moment of silence for the 150,000 Americans who have now died from COVID-19--more lives than our country lost in World War I. This national tragedy is more keenly felt because it has not and cannot be properly mourned. One of the most devastating consequences of this disease is that it keeps us apart even in death. There is no final clutching of the hand of a loved one, no funeral to remember one by. Grandchildren, wrapped in protective gear, wave goodbye from across the hospital room. There are 150,000 Americans who have died, which is more than in any other nation on God's green Earth--more than of our allies and more than of our adversaries, more than in the most populous nations, more than in those with mere fractions of our wealth and power, and more--so many more--than in the nation from which this virus originated. We will debate the reasons for this ugly truth--we must--if we are to avoid compounding our errors and heaping sorrow upon sorrow as the virus continues to rage throughout our country. Yet now we spend a moment to acknowledge how much our country has suffered already. We have lost friends and neighbors, brothers and sisters, fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, a beloved professor at Howard University, a civil rights pioneer, and a renowned psychiatrist.…”