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We understand when we took an oath to represent the people who elected us that we speak on behalf of them. It wasn’t about the three of these leaders, it was about who they were representing. It’s about whose voices they were channeling. Understand that – and is that not what a democracy allows?
Found on CNN 5 months ago
People around our country are concerned, afraid, confused, desperate, in many ways feeling alone.
Found on CNN 5 months ago
Being here was immensely powerful, the crimes that were done here. The blood that was shed here.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
They were kidnapped from their home. They were transported hundreds of miles from there not really sure where they went. And they came to this place of horror, some to die, many to starve and be tortured. Women to be raped before they were then forcibly taken on a journey thousands of miles from their home to be sold by so-called merchants and taken to the Americas to the Caribbean to be an enslaved people.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
The descendants of the people who walk through that door were strong people, proud people, people have of deep faith. People who love their families, their traditions, their culture, and carried that innate being with them through all of these periods, went on to fight for civil rights, fight for justice in the United States of America and around the world. And all of us, regardless of your background, have benefited from their struggle and their fight for freedom and for justice.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
We will always remember and teach all of that, that is about painful awful history, but there is also a history that is about pride and the culture and the traditions that so many of us have inherited because of that intertwined relationship.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
I’m going to Africa mainly to talk with African leaders about what we as the United States are prepared to do to have our role in investing in the future of that continent.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
By working together, we can unlock growth and opportunity that far exceeds what any of us can achieve on our own.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
He will highlight how the continued fight for voting rights is integral to delivering economic justice and civil rights for black Americans.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
We are also troubled that Beijing has deepened its relationship with Moscow since the war began, looking ahead, any steps by China to provide lethal support to Russia would only reward aggression, continue the killing, and further undermine a rules-based order.
Found on CNN 7 months ago
I don’t think America’s racist, but I think the overhang from all of the Jim Crow, and before that, slavery, have had a cost, and we have to deal with it.
Found on CNN 7 months ago
When we first came into office, the first bill we proposed was for a pathway to citizenship, was to fix a broken immigration system that was broken under the previous administration, participate in the solution because we are offering solutions.
Found on FOX News 7 months ago
All of us in this room and in our country understand this violence must stop, and President Biden and I and our administration will continue to provide full support to the local authorities as we learn more.
Found on CNN 8 months ago
There are things that I’ve done as vice president that fully demonstrate the strength of my leadership as vice president that have not received the kind of coverage that I think [the] Dobbs [decision] did receive.
Found on FOX News 8 months ago
So as we gather here, votes are still being counted. But it is clear, your work sent a message to the entire world. Our democracy is intact. And when democracy is intact, this is what it looks like, here's the thing. Some Democrats won and some Republicans won. That is what happens when more than one hundred million Americans participate and vote in free and fair and open elections.
Found on FOX News 10 months ago
And so, understand when we talk about democracy is on the ballot, it is.And the nature of democracy is such that I think there’s a duality, on the one hand, there’s an incredible amount of strength when a democracy is intact, in terms of what it can give its people to protect and fight for their individual rights and freedoms. In that way, it can have great strength in lifting people up.
Found on FOX News 10 months ago
We’re talking about people who are fleeing great harm, they've fled great harm and they are seeking refuge. And talk about pol theater, playing games with people's lives. There are mothers with sleeping babies getting off those buses.
Found on FOX News 11 months ago
Our supposed border czar, Vice President Kamala Harris, has yet to even visit the border to see firsthand the impact of the open-border policies she has helped implement, even going so far as to claim the border is ‘secure.’.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
In that that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The President intends to run and if The President does, I will be The President ticket mate. We will run together.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
But, you know, look at all President Biden has done. President Biden has kept true to what President Biden said President Biden would do. And, so, I think President Biden just needs to keep going.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think that there is no question that we have to do what the president and I asked Congress to do, the first request we made: pass a bill to create a pathway to citizenship.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think that there is no question that we have to do what the president and I asked Congress to do, the first request we made: pass a bill to create a pathway to citizenship, the border is secure, but we also have a broken immigration system, in particular, over the last four years before we came in, and it needs to be fixed.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think this is an activist court, we had an established right for almost half a century, which is the right of women to make decisions about their own body.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
When I began work on the root causes of migration from northern Central America, I approached the task with a few basic principles: one, my belief — I think our shared belief — that people don’t want to leave home, and when they do, it is usually for one of two reasons: They are fleeing harm, or they cannot address the basic needs of themselves or their family.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
But none of this is going to be just turning on a switch. It requires focus, it requires intention, it requires an investment over a period of time, which means, in the short point, is that you’re not going to see the benefit of it overnight — because the problems didn’t occur overnight.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We can not tolerate a perspective that is about going backward and not understanding women have agency.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
If Donald Trump tells us we should take it, I'm not taking it.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This morning, President Biden tested positive for Covid-19. President Biden is fully vaccinated and twice boosted and experiencing very mild symptoms. President Biden has begun taking Paxlovid.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Rohini Kosoglu is a brilliant and trusted leader who has been at my side for years from the US Senate to the campaign trail to the White House. Rohini Kosoglu has brought vision, strategic judgment, and a depth of experience as our administration has addressed some of the most urgent challenges facing our nation. Rohini Kosoglu is an exceptional public servant and I am enormously grateful for Rohini Kosoglu service. Rohini Kosoglu will remain a valued advisor and friend.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think that what is most important right now is that we ensure that the restrictions that the states are trying to put up that would prohibit a woman from exercising what we still maintain is her right, that we do everything we can to empower women to not only seek but to receive the care where it is available, is federal land one of those options?
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Vice President Kamala Harris have the power to elect leaders who will defend and protect Vice President Kamala Harris rights. And as the president said earlier today, with Vice President Kamala Harris vote, Vice President Kamala Harris can act, and Vice President Kamala Harris have the final word. So this is not over.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We must be ready to stand as a united front when the decision comes down.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
First, I do believe most people don't want to leave home. They don't want to leave their grandmother. They don't want to leave the place where they worship and the community that they've always known, and so, when they do, it is usually for one of two reasons: They are fleeing harm, or to stay means they simply cannot satisfy their basic needs or the needs of their family.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
So, these are the guiding principles that inform our Root Causes Strategy. And this strategy is aligned with the importance that many of the leaders here know and live -- the importance of paying attention to a good return on investment, consistency and predictability, a skilled workforce, and a reliable infrastructure.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This story illustrates what I believe is possible when governments and business truly integrate our approach. This scenario is, then, our vision for millions of people as part of our strategy to address the root causes of migration from Central America.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
On the issue of gun violence, I will say, as I've said countless times, we are not sitting around waiting to figure out what the solution looks like. You know, we're not looking for a vaccine, we know what works on this. It includes, let's have an assault weapons ban.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
In Kamala Harris and her husband country, we have to recognize that we may very well be experiencing an epidemic of hate toward so many Americans that is wrong, we should interpret as being hate against all of us, as a nation. We are a nation that prides itself on our diversity as an element of our strength.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
My body, my decision ! sadly, the Senate failed to stand in defense of a woman's right to make decisions about her own body.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We also recognize just as it has been in the United States, for Jamaica, one of the issues that has been presented as an issue that is economic in the way of its impact has been the pandemic, so to that end, we are announcing today also that we will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica that have been essential to, I believe, what is necessary to strengthen not only the issue of public health but also the economy.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day. Every day it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us, ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically, that's wrong.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically, that's wrong.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I have more questions: Chicago, what happened with Kim Foxx and that prosecutor? The D.A.'s team? What was going on there? I have so many questions and was Jussie Smollett involved in any way in perpetrating something bigger, something was that was like a woke moment gone awry? We don’t know, and we may never know. But it bears asking the questions because the tax dollars were spent, and we as a public were manipulated.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
What it is is that they constantly question the qualifications of Black women, and that’s why people are saying that she’s unprepared.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The United States is prepared to defend every inch of NATO territory. The United States takes seriously that an attack against one is an attack against all.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We're making deliveries every day in terms of what we can do.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The US is absolutely prepared to do what we can and what we must.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Imagine a future : The freight trucks that deliver bread and milk to our grocery store shelves and the buses that take children to school and parents -- all the heavy-duty vehicles that keep our supply lines strong and our economy to grow -- imagine that they produce zero emissions, we are all in the midst of a turning point.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I appreciate and admire President Zelenskyy's desire to join NATO.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The effect will be immediate on Russia and we will continue as we have since the very beginning to work with our allies and our partners around the world, we are unified in our position on this and in our reaction to this unjustified, unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I mean, listen guys, we are talking about the potential for war in Europe, i mean, let's really take a moment to understand the significance of what we're talking about.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I can say with absolute certainty : If Russia further invades Ukraine, United States together with our allies and partners will impose significant and unprecedented economic costs, we will impose far-reaching financial sanctions and export controls. We will target Russia's financial institutions and key industries. And we will target those who are complicit and those who aid and abet this unprovoked invasion.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We didn't all start out the same place but through diplomacy and again, speaks to the strength of diplomacy, we came together and are now speaking the unified voice, history has challenged us over the years in that regard.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
And so I want to make sure that the President nominates an exceptional candidate, an exceptional individual, and I would be honored to be able to support an exceptional African American woman.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
So I would ask that in this coming year, we work together to ensure that all Americans who are eligible to vote actually have meaningful access to the ballot.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I'd like to publicly congratulate you on your election, i look forward to many areas of partnership, including the work we can do to address the economic prosperity of Honduras.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Today, our freedom to vote is under assault, it is time for The Senate to do The Senate job. ... The Senate must pass this bill, now.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Years from now, our children and our grandchildren, they will ask us about this moment, and let us tell them we secured the freedom to vote, that we ensured free and fair elections, and we safeguarded our democracy for them and their children.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Joe Biden took the, I believe, right and courageous step to say that Senate rules should not get in the way of protecting the American people's access to the ballot. And Joe Biden compared this time to a previous time in our history, which is apt for comparison.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's not a solution to the problem at hand, which is that right now in the United States of America, we need federal laws that guarantee the freedom and right of every American to have access to the ballot to be able to vote, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, the Freedom to Vote Act address that issue.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We have been a role model saying, 'You can see this and aspire to this and reject autocracies and autocratic leadership,' right now, we're about to take ourselves off the map as a role modelif we let people destroy one of the most important pillars of a democracy, which is free and fair elections.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
No, I don't believe I'm being set up to fail, i'm the Vice President of the United States.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
To not get out of D.C. more, i mean, and I actually mean that sincerely for a number of reasons.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I'll leave that for others to deal with, i have a job to do, and I'm going to get that job done.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
In many ways, we're starting from scratch on something that's been raging for almost an entire year.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We have the power today to go out and if you've not been boosted, go get boosted. The power today to go and get vaccinated, and that will have an impact on where we end up tomorrow.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We didn’t see delta coming. I think most scientists did not — upon whose advice and direction we have relied — didn’t see delta coming, we didn’t see omicron coming. And that’s the nature of what this, this awful virus has been, which as it turns out, has mutations and variants.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It’s Joe Biden, and don’t start talking like a Republican, about asking whether or not he’s president, and it's Joe Biden, and I'm vice president, and my name is Kamala Harris.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
C'mon Charlamagne. C'mon, it's Joe Biden, i can't tell sometimes.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think it's a mistake to try and think about this only through the lens of Democrats versus Democrats when the fact is Republicans are consistently and unanimously standing in the way of progress, so, let's put the emphasis where it really needs to be, which is how is it that today and in this year of our Lord 2021 in America and on some basic issues like upholding our democracy, we can't get bipartisan support.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re building back up our economy, and we are reestablishing America’s role in the context of our allies and partners around the world.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I love people, and there’s so much that we are doing that is directly impacting and with the people in mind, and I have always felt that my responsibility as an elected leader is to go to the people, especially when their needs must be addressed, and they must know that they are being seen and being heard.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Oh, how about,' She's going to buy a pot on her way to the airport,'.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The road ahead, it will not be easy. But the President-elect and I are hitting the ground running, we don't have a moment to waste.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are breaking records of the number of people that are contracting, a deadly virus, and this administration fails to take personal responsibility or responsibility in terms of leading the nation through this dangerous, dangerous and deadly mass casualty event, and that's why President Donald Trump have forfeited President Donald Trump right to a second term in office.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
President Donald Trump has this goal to turn 20 % of Black men out in favor of President Donald Trump. Donald Trump who pushed, as part of President Donald Trump popularity, the theme that the first Black man to be President of the United States was illegitimately there.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
You are going to make the difference! you are going to make the decision about your future, about your familys future. It is through the voice of your vote, and you have the power. The power is with the people, and you know that. Thats why youre standing in this line today, and I just came to say thank you!
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Affordable Care Act and all The Affordable Care Act protections hinge on this seat and the outcome of this hearing, and I believe The Affordable Care Act's very important the American people understand the issues at stake, and what's at play.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Can you imagine if you knew on January 28 as opposed to March 13 what they knew ? What you might have done to prepare ? they knew and they covered it up.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Joe Biden and I are very clear : The American people are voting right now. And it should be their decision about who will serve on( Supreme Court)... for a lifetime.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This election is about building this country back better, and that's what Joe Biden and I will do.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
He's a very good debater. So, I definitely am going to prepare for this debate like I have for previous debates, but I take this debate very seriously. And I think we can expect he's going to be very good.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are on the verge of a crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court, we have to take this challenge head on, and everything is on the table to do that.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I would not get into court packing, we add three justices ; next time around, we lose control, they add three justices. We begin to lose any credibility Supreme Court has at all.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If past is prologue, they will not, they'll be muzzled, they'll be suppressed, they will be sidelined, because Donald Trump's looking at an election coming up, in less than 60 days, and Donald Trump's grasping for whatever Donald Trump can get to pretend Donald Trump has been a leader on this issue, when Donald Trump is not.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don't think that most reasonable people who are paying attention to the facts would dispute that there are racial disparities and a system that has engaged in racism in terms of how the laws have been enforced, it does us no good to deny that. Let's just deal with it. Let's be honest. These might be difficult conversations for some, but they're not difficult conversations for leaders, not for real leaders.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I just wanted to thank you ladies, just you queens, you stars, you icons.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I cannot wait to see [Harris] debate our current Vice President, Meeka Pints. Or is it Paints?
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
While this virus touches us all, lets be honest, it is not an equal opportunity offender, kamala Harrisa Black, Latino and Indigenous people are suffering and dying disproportionately.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
And lets be clearthere is no vaccine for racism, weve got ta do the work.For George Floyd. For Breonna Taylor. For the lives of too many others to name.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Right now, we have a president who turns our tragedies into political weapons, joe will be a president who turns our challenges into purpose.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Today, that country feels distant, donald Trump Trumps failure of leadership has cost lives and livelihoods.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Were at an inflection point. The constant chaos leaves us adrift. The incompetence makes us feel afraid, the callousness makes us feel alone. Its a lot. And heres the thing : We can do better and deserve so much more. We must elect a president who will bring something different, something better, and do the important work. A president who will bring all of us togetherBlack, White, Latino, Asian, Indigenousto achieve the future we collectively want. We must elect Joe Biden.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This is not a coincidence. It is the effect of structural racism.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The litmus test for America is how we are treating Black women.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
They're going to engage in an attempt to distract from the real issues that are impacting the American people. And I expect that they will engage in dirty tactics. And this is going to be a knockdown, drag-out. And we're ready.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
He would take walks every morning along the beach with his buddies who were all retired government officials and they would talk about politics, about how corruption must be fought and about justice, they would laugh and voice opinions and argue, and those conversations, even more than their actions, had such a strong influence on me in terms of learning to be responsible, to be honest, and to have integrity.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is what happens when Barack Obama and Joe Biden elect a guy who just isn't up for the job, barack Obama and Joe Biden country ends in tatters and so does Barack Obama and Joe Biden reputation around the world.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I learned quickly that Beau Biden as Delaware was the kind of guy who inspires people to be a better version of themselves. Beau Biden as Delaware really was the best of Jill Biden. And I would ask Beau Biden as Delaware, where'd you get that, where'd this come from, Beau Biden as Delaware'd always talk about Beau Biden as Delaware dad, the love that they shared was incredible to watch. It was the most beautiful display between a father and a son.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I'm not gon na tell Joe Biden what to do, i want Joe Biden what to do to pick the running mate that The Biden campaign is best equipped to help Joe Biden what to do win because more than anything Joe Biden what to do has got to win, we can not suffer another four years of Donald Trump in White House.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is clear that the Supreme Court's qualified immunity doctrine is broken and in need of reform.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Rand Paul is now trying to weaken a bill that was already passed -- there's no reason for this, there's no reason for this.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I'm just not going to engage in hypotheticals, i know one thing for sure, Joe Biden was Joe Biden. Joe Biden knows what it takes to be a good vice president. Joe Biden's going to make that decision.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I do not believe you are a racist, but I also believe and it's personal and it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who is built their reputations and careers on the segregation of race in this country.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I believe in Joe. I believe in Joe, i know Joe. And that's why I'm supporting him.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I'm no longer idealistic. I want Donald Trump gone, and if George Bush were running again, I would vote for George Bush if George Bush was the only one I had available to vote for, it's been a violence that we've lived these last four years.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I have decided that I am, with great enthusiasm, going to endorse Joe Biden for president of the United States, i really believe in him and I have known him for a long time.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
There is no one better prepared than Joe to steer our nation through these turbulent times, and restore truth, honor, and decency to the Oval Office, he is kind and endlessly caring, and he truly listens to the American people.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think that its unfortunate that we have someone on this stage who is attempting to be the Democratic nominee for president of the United Stateswho, during the Obama administration, spent four years full-time on Fox News criticizing President Obama.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Within minutes of realizing this, Dwane Sims called South Carolina Democratic Party to alert them, and the access was turned off by the party authorities.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is a moment where we have to be prepared to fight for the best of our country, this is a moment where we need to fight for this country we love, for the rule of law, for our system of justice and for our very democracy.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I said I would not come because I just couldn't believe that Donald Trump would be given an award as it relates to criminal justice reform, let's be clear: This is somebody who has disrespected the voices that have been present for decades about the need for reform.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Let's be clear: This is somebody who has disrespected the voices that have been present for decades about the need for reform.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Let me just be clear so you can hear it from me, i refused to come because frankly Benedict College students were excluded and also I said I wouldnt come because I couldnt believe that Donald Trump would be given an award as it relates to criminal justice reform.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Lynching is a reprehensible stain on this nation's history, as is The President. We'll never erase the pain and trauma of lynching, and to invoke that torture to whitewash your own corruption is disgraceful.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I generally believe that as a principle, people should decide what is credible, what they want to believe and who they want to vote for, and I don't think that that should be something that we want tech companies, or any kind of other company [ to ] do.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Guaranteeing six months of paid leave will bring us closer to economic justice for workers and ensures newborn children or children who are sick can get the care they need from a parent without thrusting Paid Family and Medical into upheaval, to give all children in America the opportunities they deserve, this comprehensive children's agenda will protect their rights, ensure they have access to health care and high-quality education, and dramatically reduce child poverty.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I am not going to ride that roller coaster, i don't ride the polls when they're high, I don't ride them when they're low. We are just steady.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I'm calling on the White House to actually release whatever transcripts, whatever recordings, whatever notes there are about Donald Trump's previous conversations with Xi, because Joe Biden and his son need to know what President Donald Trump has now said in private conversations.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Trump administration has launched a multi-pronged assault on California's framework with the four automakers.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
People with PTSD tend to act out. They tend to self-medicate. Which means they're going to be on drugs or they may be an alcoholic. And then they're going to get into fights and they have a really short fuse. And guess what happens ? All of a sudden you don't qualify for VA. That's wrong because again we are not taking into account the way we have designed or enforcing the system the realities of that person's life. It's backwards !
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I plan to win this election, I'll tell you that, it's going to be about working as hard as I possibly can to get there, because over the course of this next year that's what it's going to take to unseat him.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I would never condone anyone using that word in any way, shape or form, even including the guy -- against the guy I'm running against, i have worked my entire career to do a number of things, including to ensure our disability community receives the dignity and the rights that they deserve.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's going to be about working as hard as I possibly can to get there, because over the course of this next year that's what it's going to take to unseat him.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
He just does not have the ability to really have a sense of empathy for people who are enduring hardship and enduring pain, the fact that, as you said, he is playing golf while this is happening is not surprising. It's not surprising, but it certainly is not reflective of the leadership that a president should provide in these moments of great tragedy.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
On the issue of Walmart, yeah they should stop selling guns. I do believe that, we need background checks and we need people to be, as I've said, responsible in the way that they're selling guns.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We need reasonable gun safety laws in this country, starting with universal background checks and a renewal of the assault weapon ban, but( elected officials) have failed to have the courage to act.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Senator Biden, your plan will keep and allow insurance companies to remain with status quo, doing business as usual, and that's going to be about jacking up co-pays, jacking up deductibles.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Gabbard said. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., also called out Harris on her health care plan: Senator Harris is my friend as well, but I have to say if we cant admit tonight whats in the plan, which is banning employer-based insurance, were not going to be able to admit that when Donald Trump is accusing Democrats of doing that as well.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We need a Green New Deal based in climate and environmental justice, which means building a clean economy that protects communities that have been neglected by policymakers for far too long.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We will allow private insurers to offer Medicare plans as part of this system that adhere to strict Medicare requirements on costs and benefits, medicare will set the rules of the road for these plans, including price and quality, and private insurance companies will play by those rules, not the other way around.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
All I can tell you is what I believe. And that is there is an enormous amount to be gained from markets.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Baltimore has become home to my team and its disgraceful the president has chosen to start his morning disparaging this great American city.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We're going from the doors to many of our country's prestigious colleges and professions being closed to our community to new investments that educate the next generation of black leaders.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Times have changed — marijuana should not be a crime, we need to start regulating marijuana, and expunge marijuana convictions from the records of millions of Americans so they can get on with their lives.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The aim is to scare immigrant communities. ... And so, hes going to... do these raids which is a crime against humanity, we are on your side, we stand with you together.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I think it defiles the office of the United States, it is irresponsible. It is hateful. It is hurtful. And he has taken the presidency to a new low.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The California senator needs to go back where The California senator came from and leave that office and so that's why I'm running with the intention of making sure there will not be four more years, i don't think that we can survive having a President of the United States who uses whatever voice The California senator has in a way that is about dividing and fueling hate in our country.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
As it relates to private insurance, there will still be supplemental insurance, but yeah, transitioning into Medicare for All will at some point reduce the requirement for insurance because everyone will have access to health care, under... my vision of Medicare for All, people will have covered what they don't now in terms of vision care, dental care, hearing aids.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
My vision of Medicare will not be about a middle-class tax hike, so, I'm not prepared to do that at all. And in that way, perhaps my position is different from some of the folks who are on the debate stage, but that is not what is going to happen.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Listen, I will put my record up against anybody as having been a fighter for the maintenance and the sustainability of Obamacare, as attorney general, I mean, I'm sure on the debate stage, I'm the only one who went to court to fight to keep in place all of the benefits of Obamacare.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The fight of black women has always been fueled and grounded in faith and in the belief in what is possible, we have always built the future that we can see, and believe in, and fight for. It's why Sojourner spoke. It's why Mae flew. It's why Rosa and Claudette sat. It's why Maya wrote. It's why Fannie organized. It's why Shirley ran. And why I stand here as a candidate for President of the United States.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
So we must right the wrong and -- after generations of discrimination -- give black families a real shot at homeownership -- historically one of the most powerful drivers of wealth.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
When our kids want to go to college, where as other families who own their home and can go into the equity in their home to help pay for their students' tuition, our families have to go and those students have to take out loans and at interest rates that they can't afford to pay off over a long period of time.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
By taking these steps we can shrink the wealth gap between black and white households by at least one third.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
And in the coming weeks I'll announce new investments to support black entrepreneurs and business owners by increasing access to credit and capital.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
They are trying to do what has been happening over the last two years, which is powerful voices trying to sow hate and division, and so we need to recognize when we're being played.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built United States reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country. United States was not only that, but you also worked with United States to oppose busing, and you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I do not believe you are a racist and I agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground, but I also believe and it's personal and it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senator who is built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
You also worked with them to oppose busing, and there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day, that little girl was me. So, I will tell you that on this subject, it can not be an intellectual debate among Democrats. We have to take it seriously. We have to act swiftly.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I do not believe you are a racist. And I agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground, but I also believe - and it's personal and it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
That little girl was me, so I will tell you that on this subject, it can not be an intellectual debate among Democrats. We have to take it seriously. We have to act swiftly.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Vice President Biden, I do not believe you are a racist, and I agree with you, when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground. But I also believe -- and it's personal -- it was actually hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Dreamers cannot afford to sit around and wait for Congress to get its act together, these young people are just as American as I am, and they deserve a president who will fight for them from day one.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Bash Biden claims to be the best president we have seen in a generation. Well, I say let's call Barack Obama, because that's identity fraud.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The thing I love about California Democrats is we are never afraid of a fight, and we know right now weve got a fight on our hands.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I am here to earn everyone's support, and I'm going to fight to earn it.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We need to begin impeachment proceedings and we need a new commander in chief.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We need to begin impeachment proceedings and we need a new commander in chief !
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Everyone's been worried about' Will Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade,'.
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The most critical issues of our lifetimes, before and in the future.
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Here's the thing, there are states that keep passing these laws, so, when elected, I'm going to put in place and require that states that have a history of passing legislation that is designed to prevent or limit a woman's access to reproductive health care, those laws have to come before my Department of Justice for a review.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think it's very clear that – and it has not changed – that women's ability to have access to reproductive health is under attack in America.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think we have to seriously take a look at that( breaking up Facebook), yes.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Lets say this loud and clear, Without voter suppression, Stacey Abrams would be the governor of Georgia. Andrew Gillum is the governor of Florida.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I believe that what was absolutely enlightening -- and should be deeply troubling to the entire American public -- is that he made a decision and didn't review the evidence, no prosecutor worth her salt would make a decision about whether the president of the United States was involved in obstruction of justice without reviewing the evidence.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Seems you'd remember something like that and be able to tell William Barr, yeah, but I'm trying to grapple with the word' suggest,'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We don't have enough women who are making the decisions about what public policy will be, we need greater representation. All of America benefits from that and certainly my campaign does, which is why I made it a focus.
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I'm going think about it and I'm going to talk to experts and I'm going to make a decision and I will let you know, we right now have got a lot of work to do with the people in our country who have served their time and have been prohibited from voting.
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Do I think that people who commit murder, people who are terrorists, should be deprived of their rights ? Yeah, I do, i'm a prosecutor, I believe that in terms of, there has to be serious consequence for the most extreme types of crimes.
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We right now have got a lot of work to do with the people in our country who have served their time and have been prohibited from voting.
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I'm saying that I will weigh in specifically, but Boston Marathon's Boston Marathon that I bring to it, yeah.
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94 % of them were high school dropouts, i said what we have got to do is pay attention to the fact that these children aren't in school and put all the resources necessary to get them in school and give their parents the resources, hold the school districts accountable...
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I took a look at who the homicide victims were who were under the age of 25.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Steve Grossman made a very big impression on, I think, everyone. Steve Grossman is very authentic, and this is what people are craving, that is one thing Steve Grossman has in common with the current president : What you see is what you get. Otherwise, they are complete opposites.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are being offered a false choice, you're either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take everyone's guns away. It's a false choice that is born out of a lack of courage from leaders who must recognize and agree that there are some practical solutions to what is a clear problem in our country.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Part of the practical solution is to agree that we need smart gun safety laws, period.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In San Francisco, San Francisco is San Francisco, I believe, of a majority of people that the most severe crimes be met with the most severe consequences, and that life without the possibility of parole is a severe consequence.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Russian government came into the house of the American family and manipulated us, we must take this seriously in that context and understand that when we debate as we did in 2016, one of the most important debates that we have, which is who'll be the leader of our country, the Russians exploited our nation's discourse to play into our deepest fear.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Access to affordable healthcare should not be a privilege for those who can pay it, it should be a right for everybody.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We had over 200 years of slavery, we had Jim Crow for almost a century. We had legalized discrimination, segregation and now we have segregation and discrimination that is not legal but still exists and is a barrier to progress. We have disparities around housing. We have disparities around education. We have disparities around income. And we have to recognize that everybody did not start out on an equal footing in this country. And in particular black people have not.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're going to have many opportunities for us to spend time together.
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These racist images are deeply disturbing, hatred and discrimination have no place in our country and must not be tolerated, especially from our leaders -- Republican or Democrat. Governor Northam must resign.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's very important that anyone who presents themselves as a leader and wants to be a leader will speak like a leader, that means speaking with integrity. It means speaking truth. It means speaking in a way that expresses and indicates some level of interest and concern to people other than oneself. And so, right there we will see a great contrast.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
But that is not our story. That is not who we are. That is not our America, the United States of America is not about us versus them... I'm running to be a President of the people, by the people, for all the people.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If I have the honor of being your president, I will tell you this : I am not perfect. Lord knows, I am not perfect, but I will always speak with decency and moral clarity and treat all people with dignity and respect. I will lead with integrity. And I will speak the truth.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I knew our criminal justice system was deeply flawed, i knew that the people in our society who are most often targeted by predators are also most often the voiceless and vulnerable. And I believed then as I do now, that no one should be left to fight alone.
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I love my country, and I feel a sense of responsibility to stand up and fight for the best of who we are, i'm prepared to fight and I know how to fight.
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We are a diverse country, yes, and some people would suggest that in diversity, when there is a diverse population, one can not achieve unity, i reject that notion, because this is my belief : Yes, we are diverse and we have so much more in common than what separates us. And when we emphasize that commonality... we will achieve greater unity. And in particular greater unity than we have right now, when there are so many powerful voices who are trying to sow hate and division among us.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is a reminder that Democrats have a lot of ideas and a lot of energy, and we're ready to get out there and talk about the big difference between us and President Donald Trump and the Republican administration.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Isn't is exciting ? this is the first time this has happened in American history, and in my view it should have happened a long time ago. I think it's terrific.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I will definitely [ think about it ] through the holidays and probably into the first month of the year figure it out.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
At some point, I obviously have to make a decision, i am exploring it.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm losing track, see, that's even fewer days to get out there !
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We can not look up ten days from now and have any regrets about what we could have done.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We should put money back into the pockets of American families to address rising costs of childcare, housing, tuition, and other expenses, our tax code should reflect our values and instead of more tax breaks for the top 1 % and corporations, we should be lifting up millions of American families.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
California Sen. Kamala Harris are sitting here before members of Senate Judiciary Committee because California Sen. Kamala Harris had the courage to come forward, because as California Sen. Kamala Harris said, California Sen. Kamala Harris believe Senate Judiciary Committee was Senate Judiciary Committee.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I'm sure you've noticed your lack of a clear answer to a question I asked you last night has generated a lot of interest, i received reliable information that you had a conversation about the special counsel or his investigation with the law firm that has represented President Trump.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think there's no question that New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand've got to critically re-examine ICE and its role and the way that it is being administered and the work it is doing.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There’s no question that we’ve got to critically reexamine ICE and West Coast role, and the way that it is being administered, and the work it is doing, and we need to probably think about starting from scratch.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
They are conservative ideologues, not mainstream jurists, senate Democrats can not and will not accept them to serve on the highest court in the land.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
All suffered sex abuse and domestic violence, and fled for the safety of their children, my heart is broken. ... Let's keep being their voice.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Our answer is not going to simply be how we felt, but what we did, did we sign people up to vote ? Did we fight against voter suppression ? Did we knock on doors ? Did we pay attention to who's elected ? ... Did we stand up for justice ? Did we fight for folks and for equality, and not tire ?
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It’s immoral, and let’s be clear, government should be in the business of keeping families together, not tearing them apart.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I think that it should run its natural course, certainly it shouldn't be motivated by any election or politics at all.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The component that is about what we do with incarcerated people and people in prisons is an important one, but it has to be coupled with sentencing reform, which is one of the biggest reasons that we have this mass incarceration problem, which we have as a country.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's a yes or no answer, do you believe the previous interrogation techniques were immoral ? I'm not asking if you believe they were legal, I'm asking, do you believe they were immoral ?
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The President has asserted that torture works, do you agree with that statement ?
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We're all supposed to have an equal vote, but money has now really tipped the balance between an individual having equal power in an election to a corporation. So I've actually made a decision since I had that conversation that I'm not going to accept corporate PAC checks. I just, I'm not.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We need this administration to understand that if they care about the opioid crisis in rural America as they say they do, they have also got to care about the drug-addicted young man in Chicago or East LA.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I'm not putting my name in for consideration. I do not wish to be considered. I am running for the United States Senate.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
This settlement provides meaningful relief to victims( and) brings greater transparency to Comcast's privacy practices.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
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