Stacey Plaskett

Stacey Elizabeth Plaskett (born May 13, 1966) is an American politician, attorney, and commentator. She is a delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the United States Virgin Islands' (USVI) at-large congressional district. Plaskett has practiced law in New York City, Washington, D.C., and the U.S.Virgin Islands.

Virgin Islands Delegate to Congress Stacey E. Plaskett

Quotes

• Republicans do not care about everyday Americans lives.  The privileges they fight for are just for them
  • [1]

• This was devastating, and the world watched us, and the world is still watching us, to see what we will do this day, and will know what we did this day, 100 years from now. Those are the immediate consequences and our actions will reverberate as to what are the future consequences.
  • [2] Stacy Plaskett on the Capitol attack

• I’d rather be able to run from rioters and fight with them [than] from a virus that may be out in this room that I can’t see and don’t know how to fight
  • [3]

• "I’ll briefly say that defense counsels put a lot of videos out in their defense, playing clip after clip of Black women talking about fighting for a cause or an issue or a policy. It’s not lost on me that so many of them were people of color and women. Black women. Black women like myself who are sick and tired of being sick and tired for our children, your children"
  • [4] difference between women of color urging their followers to fight for civil rights and the speeches of Mr. Trump, whose followers attacked the Capitol seeking to overturn the results of a legitimate election

• "There are long-standing consequences. Decisions like this that will define who we are as a people. Who America is"
  • [5]Plaskett said, urging the Senate to convict Trump on the count of inciting the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot

• "But I do believe, even though we lost that case, that we have shown who Donald Trump is. We've shown the enemy that was among us, that was attempting to lead us, that was using us for his own greed and power, and that he will not have the same power that he had, should he ever attempt to run again"
  • [6] On Donald Trump

• "My office was on the west front of the Capitol, I worked in the Capitol and I was on the House side. This year is 20 years since the attacks of Sept. 11 and almost every day, I remember 44 Americans gave their lives to stop the plane headed to this Capitol building. I thanked them every day for saving my life and the lives of so many others"
  • [7] On the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

• "Republicans were not wearing masks, and we were so many of us thinking, I’m out of here’. I’d rather be able to run from rioters and fight with them [than] from a virus that may be out in this room that I can’t see and don’t know how to fight"
  • [8] on Republicans not wearing Covid-19 masks

• "When I think of that and I think of these insurgents, these images, incited by our own president of the United States, attacking this Capitol to stop the certification of a presidential election"
  • [9] she said, enunciating each syllable, then pausing before adding, “our democracy, our republic"

• "I recognize that I’m an example for them, for young women, young girls of color, and even for those who are not because as other people who are not of color see our brilliance, our excellence, they recognize that there’s so much we have to offer as well"
  • [10] Plaskett told NowThis in an interview

• "I know people are feeling a lot of angst and believe that maybe if we had this, the senators would have done what we wanted, but listen, we didn't need more witnesses, we needed more senators with spines"
  • [11] Plaskett, said on CNN's "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper Sunday.

• "I think it leaves him for all history - our children and my grandchildren will see in history that this was the most despicable despot attempting to become a fascist ruler over a country that was founded in democracy"
  • [12] on the impeachment

Quotes about her

• "This is a moment of special pride for me because Representative Plaskett is not only the first delegate ever to be on a team of impeachment managers in American history, but she was also my law student"
  • [13] Raskin said, introducing her