Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I am on leader time. Forced Family Separation Mr. President, as the purposeful, cynical, and shameful humanitarian crisis of family separation at the border continues to unfold, the vast majority of Americans are looking to President Trump's administration, which started this practice, to end it. The Associated Press recently reported that the Trump administration has been sending babies and young children to what they call tender age facilities. It is unconscionable--unconscionable--that the Government of the United States is warehousing babies and toddlers alone in an institutional setting. The crisis was willfully and purposefully created by this President through his zero tolerance policy at the border. It can and should be ended by the same mechanism. With the simple flick of a pen, the President can end this policy. If the President wants to borrow my pen, he can have it. He can do it quickly and easily if he wants to. It is on his back. The administration must end this gratuitously cruel and counterproductive policy that has brought such pain to innocent children and so much shame on this Nation. No law requires the separation of children from their families, no law says you must send babies to detention facilities, and no law is required to end it. Nineteen Republicans in the Senate have already called on the Trump administration to reverse or suspend this policy administratively, without any congressional action.…”