Fox News Sunday interviews during 2017: on Civil Rights


Thomas Perez: Respect John Lewis' stature as icon of civil rights movement

Q: The president-elect called John Lewis "all talk, talk, talk, no action." Can he really say that about the man who got his head cracked open walking across the Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday [in the 1965 Civil Rights movement], "all talk, no action"?

PENCE: When someone of John Lewis' stature, someone who is not only an icon in the civil rights movement, but also someone who by virtue of his sacrifice on that day that we know as Bloody Sunday, he crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge and he suffered that abuse [for the sake of] voting rights--for someone to use his stature to use terms like this is not a legitimate president, it's just deeply disappointing to me, and I hope he reconsiders it. But what Donald Trump was talking about their was literally generations of failed policies coming out of Washington, D.C., that have failed too many families and too many cities across this country. I will tell you, Donald Trump is a man who is profoundly impatient with failure.

Source: Fox News Sunday 2017 interview by Chris Wallace Feb 26, 2017

  • The above quotations are from Fox News Sunday interviews during 2017
    (Chris Wallace and Bret Baier interviewing candidates for 2017-18 races).
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Sen.Jim Webb(VA)

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Roseanne Barr(PF-HI)
Robert Steele(L-NY)
Dr.Jill Stein(G,MA)
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