Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, this resolution stands for one very simple proposition: White nationalism and white supremacy are hateful expressions of intolerance that have no place in the United States of America. Unfortunately, what should be an obvious statement in 2019 has been challenged in recent days, and not for the first time, by one of our own colleagues. As those elected to represent all of America, Members of Congress should be the first to condemn white nationalism and white supremacy, which are the source of so much violence, so much hatred, and so much divisiveness throughout our Nation's history. These hateful ideologies are diametrically opposed to what America is supposed to be. But, as the New York Times reported last week, Mr. King of Iowa was quoted as saying: ``White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization--how did that language become offensive?'' Well, I will tell him, and anyone else who may be confused. This language has always been offensive. We fought a civil war to establish that. But this language and the philosophy it represents persisted.…”