Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the American people--the world--is watching a really horrendous, barbaric, horrible situation in Ukraine; and we are all praying for the people there, trying to do as much as we can to support them. And this barbarism we are seeing from Vladimir Putin is something I don't think anyone is ever going to forget. We can't let it stand. We need to use all instruments of American power--with our allies--to work to address this long term because this is a long-term problem--the new era of authoritarian aggression led by Putin, led by Xi Jinping--and we need to be able to address it. One of these instruments of American power that we have had until recently, in a bipartisan way--every President has supported being an energy producer, being an energy superpower, being a country that is energy independent. And I don't have to tell the Presiding Officer, but this has been highlighted by the current crisis. What has happened is the American people--really, the world--have awoken to the fact that the Biden administration came into office and, instead of building on what they inherited from the Trump administration, which, again, was a bipartisan goal of American foreign policy, American energy policy, American domestic policy--for decades, every President--every President--wanted America to be energy independent. President Obama used to talk about this, all-of-the-above energy: oil, gas, renewables; Jimmy Carter, of course; Donald Trump; George W. Bush.…”