Political Quotes

“Madam President, as my colleague from Oklahoma Senator Lankford just gave a wonderful speech on the Fourth of July, we are all focused on heading home for the Fourth of July, celebrating freedom, celebrating our independence, celebrating liberty. And we all know that that freedom is not free. There is a saying at the Korean War Memorial, etched in stone, that says those very words: ``Freedom is not free.'' The sacrifices of our military are something that all of us are going to be thinking about over the course of the Fourth of July week, weekend, as we celebrate and commemorate American liberty, American independence, and American freedom. Our military has helped us provide that, both here at home but also, importantly, abroad. I had the opportunity to go on a congressional delegation--Senate delegation with two of my Senate colleagues, Senator Coons and Senator Duckworth, a couple weeks ago to Korea--South Korea and Taiwan. And it doesn't matter where you are from in America, whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, when you go overseas and you go to countries like that, countries and places that literally exist because of the sacrifice of the American military, it makes you humble, and it makes you proud. South Korea and Taiwan--vibrant economics, vibrant democracies. And if you know the history, those two places wouldn't be that way if it weren't for the sacrifice, literally, of tens of thousands of Americans.…”