Political Quotes

“it is no great secret that the American people understand how far removed the U.S. Congress and both political parties are from their needs. They do polls out there, depending on the month, and Congress gets a 10-percent approval rating, and, on a good day, maybe a 20-percent approval rating. People understand that, to a shameful degree, what Congress does is worry about the needs of wealthy campaign contributors--both political parties--and turns their backs on the needs of working people. A few months ago, in Burlington, VT, not far from where I live, they shut down the road so that people could line up in their cars to get emergency food distributed by the Vermont National Guard--hundreds and hundreds of people in Burlington and all over the State of Vermont. And, by the way, Vermont probably is in better shape than most States in this country. We have more hunger in America today than at any time in the modern history of this country. This pandemic has been a disaster not only from a public health perspective but from an economic perspective, and economists tell us that working families today are in worse shape right now than at any time since the Great Depression. And it is not just the children in America--the richest country on Earth--who are going hungry. You have millions and millions of families who are scared to death that they are going to be evicted from their homes and join the half a million people in America who are already homeless.…”