Political Quotes

“Mr. President, last week we had a lot going on in terms of national security and foreign policy facing our country and, most importantly, facing our troops, facing our military. The President, the Secretary of Defense, the top leaders in the military were asking a lot of our troops in 1 week. Let me just give you a little example of that. Just yesterday, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced, from where he is in Iraq, that the United States will be deploying 560 more troops to Iraq in our fight against ISIS. Make no doubt about it, the White House might spin what we are doing over there, but our troops are definitely in combat, fighting to protect us. At the NATO summit on Friday, President Obama announced that the United States will be deploying an additional 1,000 troops and a separate brigade headquarters to Poland. A lot of us--I think bipartisan--support what is going on at the NATO summit and congratulate the President for a successful summit. On Wednesday, the President announced he plans to leave 8,400 American troops in Afghanistan--more than he originally planned, a number that a lot of us had been advocating for, maybe even more--to combat the Taliban; again, our troops in action. On Saturday, we learned that North Korea launched a submarine ballistic missile off the coast of the eastern part of the country.…”