Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague, Congresswoman Stacy Plaskett, for leading tonight's Special Order hour, joined by her cochair, Congressman Marc Veasey, and also my classmate. Let me say to our chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Congressman Cedric Richmond for bringing this Special Order hour here tonight. So much has been said already. But let me say how honored I am to join my colleagues as we address and talk about ``A Response to President Trump's Inaugural Address and New Deal for African Americans.'' Like so many of my colleagues tonight, Mr. Speaker, and the countless Americans who are watching at home, I remain deeply concerned and troubled about several of the statements that Mr. Trump made and also about the stances of Mr. Trump's Cabinet members, comments about minorities and women and immigrants, and, of course, comments about our own colleague Congressman John Lewis. Unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, in Trump's inaugural address, he did nothing to ease those concerns or to unite us. On the contrary, all I heard on Friday was another campaign speech of more of the same divisive rhetoric and recycled ideas from his campaign trail, ideas like the new deal for Black America that he mentioned on the campaign trail, a proposal that you have heard a lot about tonight that embraces the same trickle-down economic assumptions that didn't work for African Americans in the past and certainly won't work today. Mr.…”