Political Quotes

and still I rise, and I rise, Mr. Speaker, to call to the attention of this august body some important information. I rise, Mr. Speaker, as the only Member of Congress ever to be evicted during a joint session of Congress. I have been…

I did not come to Congress to be a bystander while a president abuses power and devolves American democracy into authoritarianism with himself as an authoritarian president.

I did rise to my feet, and I did say to the President: You have no mandate to cut Medicaid.

and still I rise now, as I did during the Joint Address to Congress when I told the President and the Nation that there is no mandate to cut Medicaid. The waste, fraud, and abuse argument is a facade, because no empirical evidence has been…