Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I am rising to speak this morning about the nomination of our colleague, Senator Jeff Sessions from Alabama, to become the 84th Attorney General of the United States. As the highest law enforcement officer in the land, it is the responsibility of the Attorney General to ensure that all Americans receive the equal justice under the law they are entitled to as American citizens. A commitment to that equal justice has rarely been more necessary than it is today. We need an Attorney General wholly committed to serving the people of the Nation, and we need an Attorney General who fights to expand American's civil rights, not to restrict them, hobble them, or eliminate them, or to eliminate the Justice Department's Office of Civil Rights. We need an Attorney General who will stand up to the President when he tries to put an illegal and unconstitutional policy in place. So it has been part of our journey, the story of America, that we have strived to form a more perfect union. We have worked over time--like Martin Luther King said, the long arc of history bends toward justice. But we have worked to bend toward justice. Our vision of opportunity was incomplete at the founding of our Nation. It was not extended to all genders and all ethnicities and all races. We have worked hard to change that, but here we are at this point in time, still not at the end of that journey.…”