Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. I am closing with a simple statement. We must end terrorism and anti-Semitism here in the United States. The violence suffered in Colleyville could have happened anywhere in America. Let's take a minute to review some Jewish history. It literally began in that fateful year of 1492 when Europeans arrived in the New World, and a number of Jews fought alongside George Washington in the American Revolution. And the first Jewish man to give his life for this country was also ironically the first Jew to be elected to public office in the Colonies: Francis Salvador. By 1840, the Jewish-American community was tiny, only 15,000 out of 17 million, but it was strong and it was stable and it was prosperous. And within a decade it had tripled. At the time of the Civil War, there were only 150,000 Jews in America, but nearly 10 percent fought in the Civil War. During the 19th century, the repression and the old world of Jews in Europe just became too much for so many, and by 1924, two million European Jews had immigrated to the United States. Jewish Americans have woven a rich tapestry into the history of our Nation. Jonas Salk discovered the polio vaccine. How many lives did that one man save? Richard Feynman was an American physicist and was integral in formulating quantum physics. What is even more remarkable is the percentage of Jews that have won Nobel Prizes.…”