Political Quotes

“I rise not even, I guess, 24 hours since the news broke across the airwaves about what the President was saying and what he was not saying in Helsinki with Vladimir Putin being just a few feet away from him. That was a terrible moment for our country. Yet, in the aftermath of that, folks came together from across the country and from across all kinds of usual lines of division. Democrats and Republicans came together to express both outrage at the insult but also, I think, to express a sense of solidarity about the path forward--that this moment of crisis in our national security has to be met with bipartisan consensus. Thank goodness that has prevailed so far. We have a long way to go, but that was a good moment for the country after a very bad moment. I am not here tonight to talk about that, but I want to point to it as an example of the sides coming together on a big issue. I think there have been other moments this year. At one point, when we passed appropriations legislation, there was a strong investment in national security and national defense but also investments in priorities like education and healthcare and the opioid crisis and childcare and the National Institutes of Health--on and on. Great investments for our country will help us grow and make us stronger. The farm bill recently passed the Senate. That was overwhelmingly bipartisan. So there have been good moments. I am afraid, on the Judiciary, we have had, unfortunately, the opposite.…”