Emanuel Cleaver
Emanuel Cleaver
Emanuel Cleaver IIis a United Methodist pastor, American politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Cleaver currently represents Missouri's 5th congressional district, where he's served since 2005. The district includes the southern three-fourths of Kansas City, including all of the city south of the Missouri River, as well as the more rural counties of Lafayette, Ray, and Saline east of Jackson. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and in January 2010, Cleaver became chair of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 October 1944
CountryUnited States of America
First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.
You would think that if any group in America had 20% to 25% unemployment, it would generate all kinds of attention. The Labor Department would understandably and necessarily begin to concentrate on what can we do to reduce this level of unemployment. Congress would give great time on the floor for debate on what can be done.
The president is committed to making tax cuts for the richest one percent permanent. There are trade-offs for being so generous to those who are so wealthy. Every dollar that is given to millionaires is a dollar that will be cut in our communities.
God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.
There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.
This deal is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see.
The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.
America, I am a strong believer that how we treat each other matters.
Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.
Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.
There is more power in unity than division.
Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.
I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.
Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!