Political Quotes

“If they survive, imagine how messed up some of these young victims are going to be for the rest of their lives. We have an opportunity to do something about it. The Democratic leader has described this as a sleight of hand. That is not what this is. This is a clear choice. This is a clear choice by Democrats to choose partisan politics over the victims of human trafficking. It is as simple as that. I urge my Democratic colleagues to stop--stop the partisan politics, stop derailing this important opportunity to come together in a spirit of bipartisanship to end human trafficking. Putting partisan politics over the lives of 100,000 American children who fall victim to the brutal reality of human trafficking every year is absolutely wrong. To quote our distinguished colleague from the State of Maryland, Senator Mikulski: ``Let's get it done and let's get it done now.'' I would say to my colleague from Texas, life is too precious. These crimes are too serious for this issue to be caught up in the crosshairs of Washington politics. This has to stop. This has to end. This is a piece of bipartisan legislation that will help literally hundreds of thousands--millions, I would say--of Americans across this country. It is time we begin to right the wrongs of injustice by turning the tide in law enforcement's favor to help those who are trying to combat these terrible, heinous crimes to succeed and to help the victims of these crimes restore their lives.…”