Political Quotes

“again, I am on the floor, and I want to thank all of our staff and clerks and everyone who has been here throughout the last 20 hours. I thank everyone for speaking from their hearts about the issue of public education, why it is so important to them, and why they want a Secretary of Education who has that value and promotes that value and has the vision of that value, which is really why so many people in this country have spoken out and sent us letters and held rallies and inundated our phones. And I thank all those people who have done that. It has made an impact here and has made a difference. I think it has woken up each one of us to what we care about in this country and what we value and what we want. Like many people, I received so many letters from my constituents, over 48,000 letters. That is just the letters--not phone calls--that I got, and I want to share some of them with you because they come from people's hearts. They are not form letters. They are not something they got from somebody else and forwarded. These are personal. And I think it is important that we hear these people. I thank Marie Carlsen from Federal Way. She sent me a letter, and she said: Dear Senator Murray, Thank you for your continuing efforts at trying to prevent Betsy DeVos from becoming the head of the Department of Education.…”