Political Quotes

“Yesterday we had a program at which we honored the foot soldiers of the civil rights movement. One of the Republican Senators confessed: ``I should have done more.'' I hear that from a lot of folks from the South. They go to Selma and they march and they say they should have done more. Meanwhile, one can do something today because there is a Voting Rights Act that needs to be extended or amended and approved to give people the ultimate thing that America is most well-known for, which is the right to vote in a democracy. Voting rights are in peril in our country, income inequality continues, and millions of Americans of both parties are voting for candidates who appeal to those folks. Race relations between police and minority communities are fraught, young people have tremendous burdens of student loan debt, and our infrastructure is in danger. Let's deal with those issues and let's make Congress great again.”