Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY) said at the March for Israel rally in Washington: "Today I'm here not only as a Bronxite, I'm not here only as a New Yorker. I'm here as an American to defend one of our greatest American values, the US-Israel relationship."
"The US-Israel relationship is not just a Democratic or Republican value, it's not just a progressive or conservative value, it is an American value encoded in our national DNA," he said.