Quotes from Raphael Warnock

I've long said housing is health care, especially during a pandemic.

Children in Georgia and across America should be able to get to and from school each day without breathing polluted air, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated challenges for children already managing respiratory problems.

The lack of reliable broadband is hurting our kids. It's hurting vital services like telehealth. It's hurting our economy.

I am proud to be a vocal advocate for pay equity to ensure hard work is paid fairly, regardless of sex or gender.

Politicians should not be trying to pick their voters. The voters get to pick who represents them.

I'm a pastor. I lead Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. served.

I was John Lewis's pastor, but he was my mentor.

Like my parishioner Congressman John Lewis, I believe that voting is a sacred undertaking, and we must keep marching until we secure the sacred right to vote for every eligible American.

To fight for voting rights is to fight for human rights.

Voting rights are preservative of all other rights.

Voting rights is how we address the deepening divides in our country, by ensuring every eligible voter's voice is heard.

Voting rights are about the foundation of our democracy.

Voting rights is not just some other issues alongside other issues, it gets to the heart of who we are in the first place - a democracy!

I believe in bipartisanship. But when it comes to something as fundamental as voting rights, I just have to ask, bipartisanship at what cost?

I have long maintained that voting rights is more important than preserving any Senate procedural rule.

Banding together and leveraging collective strength is an important part of the American story, and to fight for a livable wage, for adequate safety measures, and for better benefits and conditions on the job, workers have to be able to organize.

John Lewis walked across a bridge, in order to repair the infrastructure of our democracy. A bridge to the future.

I think broadband is to the twenty-first century what electricity and electric lights were to the 20th century.

I'm the son of a woman who grew up in Waycross, Georgia, picking cotton.

Since I got to Washington I've been working to make sure the federal government is doing what's needed to strengthen Georgia's infrastructure and address supply chains issues impacting consumers and businesses across our state.

The supply chain is not just the movement of finished goods, but it is also of materials and parts used within the manufacturing process. And so it effects producers and manufacturers and obviously consumers alike.

The forestry industry is central to Georgia's economy and environment, supporting critical jobs in rural communities and across our state.

We cannot hide from history.

The Black church has been the conscience of America.