Political Quotes

“When I was a freshman, in 2007, I was the only Member of the House who chose Judiciary as their first committee choice, at least the only Democrat. That gave me the opportunity to be on John Conyers' committee, him being my chairman for 10-plus years, and that was a blessing to me. He taught me much. I would consider him my mentor. He taught me about life; he taught me about Judiciary issues in the Congress. He taught me about life. John Conyers was a spirit. I sometimes thought of him kind of as like a hippie because he had these ethereal thoughts about the way people ought to be, and about caring about people, and about justice, and about civil rights that was unlike thoughts you would hear from most people. But he was ahead of the hippies. He was ahead of Bernie Sanders. He was ahead of so many people. And we talk here today, so many people, about him being--which is all true--the longest serving African American Member of Congress. But it was more than that. He was a voice for truth on this floor before people realized the truth was the truth. He was a voice for truth when people just thought it was an African American guy talking about African American issues. But it wasn't African American issues, it was human issues. It was the essence of America, about justice, and freedom, and opportunity, and right, and he espoused it at an early time, when a lot of people didn't get it. People get it now. Dr. King got a holiday. Dr.…”