I think we need to allow a person--I mean, I understand punishment in crime, but the punishment needs to fit the crime.

I believe passionately that everyone deserves a second chance and sometimes a third chance, but deserves to be measured, not only for their worst act, but also for their best acts and the best things they are capable of.

Sometimes people just think their offices are diverse, and then they actually take a moment to look around, and then they find they aren't.

It is being sort of deliberate and intentional about making sure you are looking at that.

Are you also looking at diversity and inclusion across the board in the organization?

If you do not own transportation, and there is no public transportation, the closure of a polling place that is 2 miles from your house now being moved to 10 miles from your house has not only a chilling effect on your right to vote, it…

A government of the people, by the people, for the people should mean all the people.

Suffrage is as fundamental a right as any in our Constitution, and the right to vote lies at the very heart of our democracy.

The discrimination, the atrocities continue.

We are here to acknowledge the terrible wrong in history, to recognize the continuation of those injuries.

As troubling as this topic is, I can't tell you how glad that we are here today.

I am sorry that you have to be here again to plead your case to reauthorize the Victim Compensation Fund, a decision that, as Mr. Stewart says, should be a no-brainer.