Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank you. I thank Senator Klobuchar. I thank Senator Coons, an absolutely invaluable member of this alliance, ensuring that we are going to be able to get the resources for this. My mother would say, if she looked around, ``Dear, you're running with the right crowd.'' It is a pleasure to be able to team up with both of you. I want to put this in some kind of context to begin because my colleagues have all done such a good job. I also got a chance to listen to the Senator from Virginia, Senator Warner. He and I serve on the Intelligence Committee. I can't get into classified information, but certainly we are very much aware of some of the challenges to protecting the integrity of the votes of our citizens from a national security standpoint. I just want to start with a kind of basic, commonsense proposition. When you do something like making sure, in 2020, that citizens don't have to have a notary to vote, what you are doing is just common sense, and that is what expanded in-person voting is all about. That is what you do when you support voters with disabilities. That is what you do when you make it easier for communities where there are people of modest income, communities of color, to vote. It has been a pleasure to be able to work with Senator Klobuchar in particular, who is passionately committed to adding those kinds of priorities.…”