Political Quotes

“I am reserving the right to object. No person should be discriminated against in America. No one. It is a basic constitutional principle. We are all equal under the law, all of us. We have different ideas about music and food. We have different ideas about sexuality. We have different ideas about occupations. We have different skin colors. We are the tapestry that we talk about, and we are working to make a more perfect Union. I absolutely believe that no person should be discriminated against in America. The Equality Act doesn't just make everything equal, though. It has a great title. Who can oppose equality? No one. It is a basic principle of American values. We don't oppose equality, but we do oppose when, through legislation, you take the rights of one and dismiss the rights of others and say: Your rights don't count, only this group counts, and only this person counts. We, in America, have tried to work together, in all of our differences, for over two centuries, to learn better how to hear the rights of another one, to accommodate, and to find those spots where the rights of two individuals collide and to work it out among each other. The Equality Act does not do that. I wish it did. It changes things dramatically. Let me just give you a few examples. It reaches into high school sports and says for male and female sports, that individuals' sexual orientation and gender identity can move between those. There is no standard for testosterone.…”