Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. This legislation is supported by many, including the American Jewish Committee, B'nai B'rith International, the Commission for Art Recovery, the World Jewish Congress, the World Jewish Restitution Organization, and the Association of Art Museum Directors. I do applaud Chairman Goodlatte and Mr. Nadler for their work on this important legislation. I urge my colleagues to support it. Just kind of parenthetically, I watched a movie called ``Race,'' which was put out last fall, about Jesse Owens. It was a movie about the 1936 Olympics and how Hitler didn't want him to participate and how there were two Jewish runners who were supposed to participate and they were scratched by our American Olympic chairman because he didn't want the Jewish men to run in front of Hitler and win--because they would have--and the Americans won by a large amount of space and time, and that was not allowed. Things that happened there should never be forgotten. Elie Wiesel was remembered at the Holocaust Museum recently, after he passed earlier this year. He told us that we can never forget, and we always should bear witness. We should bear witness and remember and try to do justice for the victims of the Holocaust, as we should to the people who have been disenfranchised and damaged and hurt by our periods of Jim Crow and slavery. Keep us attuned and aware and alert. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.”