Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Speaker, that was brilliance, grace, intelligence, and complete dedication to what justice, equality, and dignity in the United States looks like. That is our colleague, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and we are so grateful to her for her voice. What my colleague from Florida did was unacceptable. It was violent. It was sexist. And I do believe he needs to apologize, not because it is going to make our colleague, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, feel any better, but because he, too, needs to learn what unacceptable behavior looks like and rise to the level of the office that he has been elected to. It does not dignify just him, but the 750,000 people that he represents. And I thought, Madam Speaker, that it would be good to review for my colleagues a little bit of the history of the word that was used, the word that begins with a b that is five letters and that rhymes with ``witch,'' that word. From 1915 to 1930, Madam Speaker, that word suddenly took off in usage in newspaper reports and articles. And do you know why? Because, in 1920, this body gave women the right to vote, and that was just a little too much power for too many men across the country. And so all of a sudden, that word rose in prominence because, God forbid, that women would have the right to vote, that we would have power in this body, that we would have power anywhere in this country.…”