It's been a long time coming. To be the last to get voting rights. To be those who just waited and waited for our turn. It's been a long time coming. I thought about my mom and my grandmother this morning: they didn't have the right to vote, but I did. I spent all my life believing that the right to vote was the key to our future. And because of the American people, the faith -- those who did not see color, gender, those who believed that it was about competence and just giving everyone a seat at the table--this is not about asking anyone to leave the room. Just scoot over and let women also share in the leadership of this country. I am so grateful that this moment has come. ...

Sorry for the tears. I don't cry often, but the cry is because there are so many women out there who made this happen, so many steely shoulders of women who just didn't care what they were called, or how they looked but they went out there and they kept moving the ball. We did it, and we did it because there were so many men who also believed in us, who carried us forward, who didn't mind that we sat next to them. And I am just a grateful woman this morning, a grateful American, that I can go to my grave one day, and say, God, we got the first black man, we got the first woman of Asian descent. We have made this country what it said it would always be: a country for all of us. And indeed it is a country for all of us. But this is a country that now has to get back to work, so I am going to dry my tears and get ready to work.

—Donna Brazile, political commentator on Fox News, on the day Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are declared winners of the 2020 presidential election.