Beto O'Rourke

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…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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

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…

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.

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…

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…

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

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…

Failing to pass the For the People Act would squander that, and we might very well lose this 245-year-old experiment of American democracy.

They are trying to distract us while they steal elections and the very democracy that we should be fighting so hard to protect and expand.

The provisions in the For the People Act that would make it harder for super PACs and candidates to coordinate and would elevate the role of everyday citizens in financing campaigns, and diminish that of corporations and mega-donors is how…

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