Political Quotes

“I rise today to remind us of what we commemorated yesterday: Holocaust Remembrance Day. During the Holocaust, the Nazi regime and its collaborators systematically murdered 6 million Jewish men, women, and children. Two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population was killed in concentration camps, death camps, ghettos, and mass shootings. Entire communities were wiped out, centuries of Jewish life and culture erased. On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember not just the numbers but the individuals. Each one represents a world of possibilities that were destroyed. And yet, we are living in a day and age where Holocaust deniers are growing in number, and anti-Semitism is on the rise. In 2024, the FBI recorded its highest number ever of anti-Jewish crimes, nearly 2,000 crimes accounting for nearly 70 percent all religiously motivated hate crimes. This is unthinkable and totally unacceptable. Jews make up only 2 percent of our U.S. population. Yet they bear the brunt of religiously motivated violence.”