Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I start this afternoon with a topic we are all talking about--the horror that we saw and heard last night at a rally when there was a chant over and over again--we have seen the footage of it--of ``send her back.'' I condemn this--as I did earlier today--in the strongest possible terms, and I want to reiterate my condemnation of that chant. I know that condemnation is widely shared on both sides of the aisle. I hope folks in both Chambers and both parties will condemn and reiterate the condemnation of that kind of chant but also what is underneath it. It is racist, for sure, and it is not who we are. That is not America. I am glad the President said that if it happens again, he will try to stop it. I wish he had done that in real time last night, but let's see what happens at the next rally. There is no excuse for any public official to do anything other than condemn that kind of language. Representative Omar is a Representative in the Congress of the United States who came here as a child, and for anyone to utter those kinds of words against her or anyone else, of course, should be condemned. Fortunately, I think most Americans agree with me, and we have to be very clear when we have that kind of sentiment expressed, especially when it is repeated across the country, as we saw last night. I want to talk about our asylum system, a legal asylum system that was established in the wake of the horrors of World War II.…”