Political Quotes

“Mr. President, this month, millions of Americans received a very rude awakening as they saw the horrors of human trafficking playing out on the big screen. I say that they had a rude awakening because until very recently, the fight against modern-day slavery has been an uphill battle on multiple fronts. Transnational criminal organizations have turned the buying and selling of human beings into a $150 billion-a-year enterprise, and current policy has made it almost impossible to catch them. Of course, the work being done on a Federal, State, and local level to help trafficking victims hasn't been made any easier by the astonishing number of people who insist that human trafficking is a myth or that things aren't nearly as bad as advocates make it out to be. That is some truly impressive spin. It is really quite disgusting. And right now, the American people are wondering why that is the message that, apparently, is driving this administration and, unfortunately, some of my Senate Democratic colleagues when we have so much evidence to the contrary. Human trafficking is an epidemic. Tennesseans have asked me, and they want to know, how could this happen in this country? How could this human trafficking issue have gotten to be so bad, and what are we going to do to stop it? I will tell you, the data does not lie.…”