Political Quotes

“Mr. President, Americans for Financial Reform called this resolution ``a deeply troubling piece of legislation that will leave millions of people of color at the mercy of auto-dealers and lenders with a long history of racial discrimination.'' I know a lot of auto dealers, and I am sure my friend from Idaho, Senator Crapo, does as well. We all do. Most of them don't do this, but some of them do, and why are we allowing the some of them who do to continue to do this? If Republicans are willing to use this loophole that a few very smart Republicans uncovered--this loophole that they went down in the weeds and figured out how to exploit--if they are willing to use this loophole to attack our basic right to equality, there may be no end to the other consumer protections they can repeal. Big corporations could be free to take advantage of customers with little to rein them in, with fewer consumer protections and with fewer environmental protections. Think of the progress we have made in this country because of consumer protection, because of strong safe drinking water laws, and because of strong clean air laws. I live 10 miles from Lake Erie. I know about the progress, in part because we passed strong laws for environmental protection. I know what we have done to clean up Lake Erie. The Great Lakes are 20 percent of all the ground and surface freshwater in the world. I look at what we have done as a society.…”