Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonBarr criticizes DOJ in speech declaring all agency power 'is invested in the attorney general' Virginia Democrat blasts Trump's 'appalling' remark about COVID-19 deaths in 'blue states' The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden asks if public can trust vaccine from Trump ahead of Election Day | Oklahoma health officials raised red flags before Trump rally MORE took to Twitter to weigh in after Senate Republicans blocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenNo new taxes for the ultra rich — fix bad tax policy instead Democrats back away from quick reversal of Trump tax cuts It's time for newspapers to stop endorsing presidential candidates MORE (D-Mass.) from speaking on the Senate floor.

Clinton's tweet quoted a line from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellSenate Republicans signal openness to working with Biden Hillicon Valley: DOJ indicts Chinese, Malaysian hackers accused of targeting over 100 organizations | GOP senators raise concerns over Oracle-TikTok deal | QAnon awareness jumps in new poll The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden asks if public can trust vaccine from Trump ahead of Election Day | Oklahoma health officials raised red flags before Trump rally MORE (R-Ky.) that has been widely shared since he led Republicans in a party line vote to block a Tuesday night speech from Warren on the floor.

"She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted,'" Clinton quoted McConnell in her tweet. "So must we all."

"She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted."



So must we all.https://t.co/JXROGHPNkH — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 8, 2017

The phrase Clinton tweeted, which has gone viral since Warren was given a rare rebuke from her Senate colleagues on Tuesday, became a battle cry for Warren's supporters after McConnell stopped her speech.

As Democrats held the Senate floor to protest Sen. Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE's (R-Ala.) nomination for attorney general, Warren quoted a 1986 letter that the late Coretta Scott King, a civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr., once wrote to oppose Sessions's then-nomination for a federal judgeship.

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McConnell interrupted Warren on the grounds that she had impugned another senator.

“Sen. Warren was giving a lengthy speech. She had appeared to violate the rule. She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.”

Clinton's tweet also included a link to the video of the Massachusetts senator reading King's letter aloud outside of the Senate after she was rebuked.