Political Quotes

“Hallelujah. Equal justice under law just took an enormous stride forward in this Senate Chamber. It was back earlier this year in July when Senator Lujan and I introduced the Epstein bill--the same bill that just passed the Senate Chamber after passing through the House--and it had 25 sponsors, but we couldn't get a single sponsor from across the aisle, not one. Twenty-five Democrats said: Let's cosponsor this bill because we need transparency; the victims need justice. And yet the President, who said during his campaign he was all about releasing these files, blocked them, did everything possible to stop them. And then in September, under consideration of the Defense Authorization Act, we put forward an amendment. In fact, our minority leader, Senator Schumer from New York, put forward an amendment and said: Let's take the bill--the bill that Senator Lujan and I had introduced with 23 colleagues--and let's vote on it now and put it in the Defense authorization bill. And my good friends across the aisle again blockaded justice. They moved to table the amendment. And with only Republican votes, they created a 51-to-49 vote to kill justice, kill transparency, kill fairness for the victims of this evil--evil--operation that Epstein headed. But the fight continued. The publicity continued from every part of the spectrum, politically, from the far right and the near right, left of center, far left of center, all saying: This is wrong.”