Steve Cohen actually said...

"And this Committee has not had one hearing on the Voting Rights Act, maybe as important of a law as exists to give people the most fundamental right: the right to vote, to have a say in who they elect..."

"That is what America is about. You go around the country, and what do people talk about? America, civil justice system, the rule of law, and people getting democracy and the right to vote."

"I might as well have gone to the South Indian Ocean and tried to find that airplane. It would have been easier than to find a Republican who was willing to put his name on a Voting Rights Act."

"We should not be the Gulag of the world which we pretty much are, putting more people in prison than any other country."