Political Quotes

“I am going to talk about a different aspect of the reconciliation bill, but before I do so, my heart is with the people of Minnesota, who have lost Melissa and Mark Hortman. Melissa was speaker of the house. As a former speaker of the house in Oregon, I know the type of effort that goes into coordinating a legislative session and commitment to so many different policy issues, striving to build a better State, a better State of Minnesota. And Melissa and Mark are no longer with us because of an act of hate, an act of violence, something that so goes against the vision of free speech and free assembly in America, where we can come together and argue our points and disagree profoundly with each other, but out of that big stew of ideas comes policies that hopefully take us forward, not violence that takes us to the grave. So, again, my heart is with Melissa and Mark's family and the people of Minnesota. And I hope we can all work together to end the type of rhetoric, the type of framing that suggests that on the differences that we have, though large on policy, neither side is coming from an evil point of view.”