Growing up, like many people in this room, I suspect, I watched as mostly--as straight politicians, many of them White, many of them men, used my basic human rights as a political football to further their careers.

As I said on the floor of the House during debate on the Equality Act, to grow up poor, Black, and gay is to not see yourself anywhere.

The economic policies that he is advancing right now, including in this upcoming Inflation Reduction Act, these things are broadly popular with the American people.

I think Joe Biden should do whatever he wants to do. If he feels that he`s in a position to win the presidency again in 2024, then that is a situation that everyone should evaluate at the appropriate time.

There is no good reason why -- and folks on Wall Street will tell you this even if they`re being honest and typically in private conversation, why there should still be this carried interest loophole.

I think that`s right, Mehdi. And this is part of a broader problem. We also have an attorney general, who until recently, thought it would have been too inappropriate to investigate the former President of the United States who we know…

Our democracy is in crisis. And the idea that any person, even a former president of the United States would be above the law is counter to what we know to be true about what democracy should look like.

we are facing the worst assault on our democracy since the Jim Crow era. And so, we`ve got to defeat that voter suppression.

fundamental rights are not up or should not be up to a vote.

I am one of only nine openly gay members of this body. For me, this is personal. I still remember where I was on June 24, 2011. The day the New York State Legislature passed marriage equality.

There’s nothing silly about protecting fundamental rights in this country.