Political Quotes

This is beyond politics. This is about the country, our pursuit of a more perfect union.

This spending bill is terrible, and I think the American people know that.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to join the gentlewoman from Virginia (Ms. McClellan) tonight in opposition to the Trump administration's attacks on education. Mr. Speaker, as the gentlewoman just…

I thought about that often stated mantra that Black history is really America's history, and it is. It came very forcefully to me the last 2 weeks as I watched things happening in St. Paul and Minneapolis: I thought about Selma and…