Political Quotes

“I just listened to the Republican leader, and there was a glaring omission in his speech. He did not mention what the rally yesterday, my speech, or the case before the Court was about--a woman's constitutional right to choose. To the women of America: What we are talking about here, what I am fighting for here is your right to choose--an issue, of course, Leader McConnell completely ignored in his speech. I feel so passionately about this issue, and I feel so deeply the anger of women all across America about Senate Republicans and the courts working hand in glove to take down Roe v. Wade. I just read about a woman in Shreveport who, under the Louisiana law now before the Supreme Court, would have to travel over 300 miles to exercise her constitutional freedoms. And this is happening in States across the country. Republican State legislatures are restricting a woman's right to choose so severely as to make it nonexistent, and the courts are now likely to go along because Senate Republicans have confirmed nominees they believe will strip away women's rights and fundamentally change this country, going so far as to deny a duly elected President the right to pick a Supreme Court Justice. Republicans here in the Senate are afraid to confront this issue directly. So they try to accomplish through the courts what they would never accomplish in the court of public opinion, and they leave women out in the cold. So, yes, I am angry. The women of America are angry.…”