"As certain States and localities, including here in Florida, continue to try to suppress the votes of some communities and rig the rules to make voting more difficult for some people, Congress must step up to ensure that voting remains a right for all eligible Americans."
"If citizenship is really the measure, then I wonder whether, in fact, we should have ever taken the rights of prisoners away."
"What he said was: You give us new data so that Congress can come up with a new formula."
"It doesn't make it right. Separate but equal was the law of the land. It wasn't right, but Brown v. Board of Education changed it."
"The Constitution does not say if you miss a vote, we are not going to let you vote anymore."
"Laws are sometimes made by very flawed people who are doing things in their own self-interest."
"If we call ourselves a democracy, we need to act like it. We need to ensure that every single person has a right to vote and that their vote is counted."
"So the ballot design that we must put in place is so important, Madam Chairwoman, and I just wanted that to be in the record."
"What makes us a great country is our ability to repair our faults."
"I lived at a time when people that looked like me could not vote."
"What have we done to the citizens of this Nation, people that we have made a promise to?"