Political Quotes

“as everybody knows, our country today faces an extraordinary set of crises--unprecedented, in fact--in the modern history of this country. Over the last several weeks, hundreds of thousands of Americans from one end of this country to the other, from big cities and small towns, have rightly taken to the streets to demand an end to police murder and brutality and, in fact, to rethink the nature of policing in America. In the midst of that--that rising up for police department rethinking and police department murder and brutality--our country continues to suffer from the COVID-19 pandemic, which, in a number of locations in this country, is actually getting worse and which has, up to this point, killed over 110,000 people and infected over 2 million Americans. Then, on top of all of that--the struggle for racial justice and dealing with a pandemic in the midst of all of that--we have the worse economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. In the last number of months, as you know, over 32 million Americans have lost their jobs. In the midst of the struggle for racial justice, in the midst of this horrific healthcare crisis, and in the midst of this economic meltdown, the American people are demanding to know what their government is doing in response to these crises. We were elected as Senators and Members of the House to respond to the needs of the American people. All over this country the American people are looking around them.…”