Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from New York for his leadership, the chairman of the committee from California, and Mr. Smith from New Jersey, who is managing the bill, and I thank very much the sponsor of this legislation, Ms. Wilson, who has brought us together around a very important statement. Members of the United States Congress will have the ability to stand and to take a very public view that the thugs of Boko Haram will no longer be able to run rampant without the attention of the United States and the people around the world. I have, Mr. Speaker, the geographic area in which Nigeria is in, from Benin and Togo, to nearby Ghana and Niger, Chad, and Cameroon. We wonder where these girls are now. So it is very important that we are condemning this horrific act. We wonder where these children are. We have used the term ``girls'' and we want to bring them home, but these are children who cannot consent to leaving home, to marrying, to changing their religion. So in one sweep we have sex traffic girls, we have violated religious freedom, and we have taken children away from the bosom of their family. So as I hold up in my hand these names, many whom we should call-- these are real people.…”