Political Quotes

“I thank my friend from Kentucky. I just had seen an article that's really an exclamation point, really, of what the gentleman was saying. The headline is: Two Americans Added to Food Stamp Rolls for Every Job the Administration Says It Created. I mean, how tragic. What an exclamation point on those facts that were laid out by my friend, Mr. Whitfield. Thank you. There's news being reported today that Attorney General Eric Holder has announced the opening of a new front in the battle for voting rights--at least so he says, his brand--which is rather ironic because this administration, and particularly the Attorney General, the Department of Justice, had talked about, in essence, how the Supreme Court had eviscerated the Voting Rights Act and just rendered it basically nothing by its terrible decision. Yet if you look at the words of the Supreme Court in that decision, the Supreme Court points out that the factual data does not bear out the attacks by this administration continuing on the States that had done wrong, if you will, sinned back 50 years ago. There was racial discrimination in this country at the time of the Voting Rights Act, and there is racial discrimination today; but it has moved. The Voting Rights Act has accomplished a great deal in our efforts to move toward equality of opportunity around the country. And so it has accomplished something that is very good and very important to the country.…”