Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague from the neighboring State, Senator Toomey, for joining us. I thank all of my colleagues who were here today, Senators Warnock and Murkowski, Toomey and Cassidy, Cortez Masto, and Padilla for joining to read these powerful words today. This is about as diverse a group as we could assemble in the U.S. Senate, a group of seven Senators who really reflect our country today: a reverend in a Black church, the son of a union electrical worker, a doctor from the Deep South, an Independent born in the Alaska country, a son of Mexican immigrants, a daughter of Mexican Americans who made this country home for a century, and a son of the Midwest whose father came from Mansfield, OH, and mother came from Mansfield, GA. We come from different backgrounds, and we disagree on many things, but we love this country--all seven us--and we know we can do better for the people who make it work. Dr. King and the civil rights leaders of his generation did more than just about anyone to push this country to live up to our founding ideals and make the dream of America real for everyone. Protesting, working for change, organizing, demanding our country to do better--those are some of the most patriotic things all of us can do. That is Dr. King's charge of this letter: Progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. That is our charge. I think about the campaign Dr. King was waging when he was assassinated.…”