Political Quotes

“I just finished watching Joe Biden's speech to the Nation. President Trump, watch Joe Biden's speech. That is what real leadership looks like. Now, it is difficult to express the moment we find ourselves in. Our country has been hit by a strange and contagious disease infecting millions and killing over 100,000 of our people. Our economy was put on ice for several months, shuttering scores of businesses, casting 40 million Americans on the unemployment rolls, and, according to government estimates, taking $16 trillion out of our economy over the long term. Then this Nation suffered another trauma--a deeply personal and wrenching pain of another African American senselessly killed in police custody. It is another reminder of the racism that can infect not only our law enforcement and our criminal justice system but our entire society. George Floyd's killing spurred justified, overwhelmingly peaceful protests from Minneapolis to New York, from Atlanta to right here in the Nation's Capital. Americans are frustrated. Americans are angry. Americans are upset at the country they see, and they want to change it. Can you blame them? It is a good thing that people protest and want to make our country better, especially when it comes to the scourge of racism, the poison that has been in American bones for far too long.…”