Political Quotes

“Mr. President, let me thank Senator Merkley and others for organizing this important discussion--a discussion designed to reclaim American values. I also want to take this opportunity not just to thank Senator Merkley but to thank millions of people from coast to coast--people who are conservatives and progressives, Democrats, Republicans, Independents--for getting on the phone, for calling Members of Congress, for expressing their outrage that in the United States of America today, we have small children who are torn from their mothers and their fathers and locked up in detention cages. All over this country, regardless of one's political view, one understands that is not what this country is about and must never be about. Tonight, as I understand it, we have Democrats here, but opposition to this policy is widespread. Let me quote from a recent op-ed that Laura Bush, our former First Lady, the wife of a conservative Republican, wrote. This is what she said: Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso. These images are eerily reminiscent of the internment camps for U.S. citizens and noncitizens of Japanese descent during World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history. This is former First Lady Laura Bush.…”