Back in 1792, Dr. Benjamin Banneker, the famed African-American inventor and scientist in Washington, proposed a Department of Peace for the new Nati…

- John Conyers

I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can …

- John Conyers

Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become inau…

- John Conyers

Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.

- John Conyers

I love these members, they get up and say, 'Read the bill ... What good is reading the bill if it's a thousand pages and you don't have two days and …

- John Conyers

If we quickly cast aside our constitutional form of government, then the enemy will not be the terrorists, it will be us.

- John Conyers

Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individu…

- John Conyers

A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and…

- John Conyers

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrat…

- John Conyers