Political Quotes

“we are getting a lot of redundancy around here, but it is worth it. I have been sitting here for several hours now listening to my colleagues. I don't recall, in the 25 years I have been here, seeing this happening, over and over. And everything that is said is so significant. The Senator from Alaska talked about the fact that we are all in this together. We are, and things were going well for a while. I am actually going to, I think, end with a little bit of optimism right now. I may be the only one doing that, because I think something is going to happen tonight. I think it has to happen tonight. We don't have the luxury of waiting. Now, I have never seen a crisis like this. We are not used to dealing with crises. Gosh, we have been through wars. We have been through things that we have considered to be crises. This is a different dimension. We are talking about people who are dying As for the coronavirus, we all know where it came from: Wuhan in China. It has caused global panic. By the way, they call it a pandemic. There is a reason for that, because this isn't just something happening in the United States of America. This is happening all over the world-- everywhere. No one is immune. This is something that we don't have a cure for right now. The Senator from Indiana kept using the word ``emergency.'' This is an emergency. It is an emergency unlike any that we have seen so far.…”