Political Quotes

“My colleague from Illinois, I so appreciate the question, and certainly you feel it very personally when the target of the President's militarization or the sending of the military into our States is your own State. And you see it with very clear eyes because you go and visit and witness, and you understand what is going on. I know, in my State, I went down and I saw these three women protesting outside of the ICE building. They had a sign; I think it had a flower on it. And since that time, what has developed is a demonstration of joy and whimsy--joy and whimsy. What I mean by that is I mean the protesters understood that Trump was trying to start a fight and then a riot and then have that riot be a justification for federalizing the National Guard. So we have many steps in this process. The first is, he said: I want to federalize the Oregon National Guard. And the Oregon attorney general appealed it, and the district judge proceeded to say: Wow. The administration's description of what is going on is untethered to the facts. This is not a rebellion. There is not an invasion. So, no, you can't federalize.”