Political Quotes

“I appreciate that clarification. I am going to make this comment now, in case I might forget later. I want to give special thanks to the team of individuals who make this body work in order to provide for the opportunity for extended debate, sometimes here under extraordinary circumstances. Because I have been here through the night speaking, one of those extraordinary circumstances was this night that has just passed. The stenographers, the Parliamentarians, the pages, our doorkeepers, our caucus staff, the bill clerks, and others who staff the desks in the offices in the Democratic and Republican cloakrooms--I am excited to see the set of smiles on the pages' faces. I don't know if the same pages were here all night or not. Well, they will hopefully really get a lot out of this opportunity to serve here. But thank you to all the staff members who have labored during the wee hours of the night and into this morning. I was summing up the issues that we labor under and noting a significant one is the stolen Supreme Court seat and the damage that completing that theft will do to our institutions. I have been going through a number of cases that are related to the far-right, anti-we- the-people vision of Neil Gorsuch, from the frozen trucker case, to the autistic child case, to the worker suffering sexual discrimination or gender discrimination at work--all of these cases that have come forward.…”