Political Quotes

“I rise together with my colleagues to speak in opposition to the President's action pardoning those who attacked this Capitol on January 6, 2021. I was here that day. I shared that day with these colleagues, and we all have memories of it--memories that we never would have imagined and hope never to repeat. But I am not going to talk about my experiences of the day. I am going to talk about a friend, a Virginian, Howie Liebengood, a Capitol Police officer who spent his career protecting this building and who died as a result of that day. And the fact that President Trump would pardon the people who attacked this Capitol, leading to Howie Liebengood's death, is a deep, deep stain on President Trump and, frankly, a stain on this body if we casually tolerate it. Howie Liebengood is a Virginian who grew up in this building. His father was the Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. Senate and, prior to assuming that role, worked in other roles in the Senate. And Howie and his two siblings grew up coming to the Capitol and treating it like it was sort of their playground and their yard--running through the halls, meeting Senators, hearing their dad tell stories about what it was like to serve this article I branch as a patriotic American public servant.…”