Beto O'Rourke

If we do not save the infrastructure of our democracy, and protect the right to vote and guarantee free and fair elections going forward, we will very well lose it forever.

You can’t let States abridge people’s legitimate constitutional right to vote.

I think there's another path, I think we can change the rules of the filibuster as they have been changed a number of times in the past.

They must pass the For The People Act.

That saves democracy and the right to vote and free and fair elections across this country.

He wants to be on the right side of history. The people of the future are going to look back on those of us alive with the opportunity to do something about the erosion of voting rights and the very possible destruction of our democracy in…

The people of the future are going to look back on those of us alive with the opportunity to do something about the erosion of voting rights and the very possible destruction of our democracy in 2021.

I think a big reason that this march is happening in Texas is that you`re absolutely right, voter suppression existed long before this current attempt. In fact, Texas has become over the years the toughest state in the nation in which to…

We've got to do that right now in 2021 and we've got to encourage. And I think, also, in the spirit of Bob Moses push a little bit on President Biden to not only diagnose the problems, this unprecedented attack on our democracy, talked…

Those Texas legislators in D.C. have already begun the important work of doing that, providing that moral pressure and leverage on the U.S. Senate and President Biden for that matter to pass the for the people act.

Seven million eligible Texans did not vote in the 2020 election and it was not for lack of love of democracy. It`s the voter suppression obstacles placed in their way.

To the Texas Democrats in Washington, D.C., we are so proud of you. Not only have you stopped the latest attack on voting rights in Texas, but your presence in D.C. is the moral leverage necessary to get the Senate and the president of the…

If we don`t have voting rights, if we don`t have democracy, then anything else that we care about, an economy that works for everyone, health care for all, racial justice, confronting climate change before it`s too late -- none of that is…

He connected all the dots, the big lie, the insurrection on the 6th of January, all these attempts in different state legislatures to make it harder for people to vote.

Let us make an exception for democracy. That`s all we`re asking for. Not for Democrats, not for Republicans but for America in this 245-year and counting experiment.

What we need is voting rights legislation, and we need the For the People Act specifically.

An elections bill that is premised on a lie, that there is widespread fraud in our elections, even though there is not, a solution in search of a problem. It`s going to disproportionately hurt and harm some Texans more than others. For…

If this is in fact the greatest attack, and we must meet it with the urgency that it demands.

It's really extraordinary the courage that they have shown because as you know, Anderson, not only have they left the state that they've left, their families, their kids, their homes, their jobs, their source of income. And we learned…

There's nothing more American and nonpartisan than making sure that every eligible one of us has a chance to cast our vote, have that vote counted and our voice heard.

If we don't pass the For The People Act, as the President called for today, then we will lose what Lincoln called the last best hope of earth.

And though they're in the political minority, they've been able to galvanize the conscience of this country and get us focused on this issue of voting rights, which the President today put in the most dramatic, starkest terms possible, the…

Whatever you see on paper today is likely going to become much worse as it goes into conference committee and other provisions are added to it. So we need to stop this effort to change or tamper our elections now, before it goes any…

We have got to fight back. And that fight now has to be in the United States Senate, where we need the For the People Act to become law, because it protects us against these forms of voter suppression.

This fight that we`re in right now for the right to vote and saving our democracy is the most important one.