George H.W. Bush: “Supporting this industry takes the work of everyone, public and private.”

More than 220 years later, Washington's warning feels strikingly relevant.

This means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally American. It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.

We've seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty.

I want to thank Senator Cardin for his tremendous leadership, for years, on human rights issues.