Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise to express my deep disappointment that what has transpired at the end of everything we debated with regard to the Iran deal is that we have chosen, as a body--a minority of this body--to filibuster the Iran agreement. For weeks--weeks--we have been talking about how important this agreement is and how we have been debating it. As to my colleague from Maine, I agree with him. All of us put so much time and effort into studying it and how it is one of the most important foreign policy and national security issues that many of us--even Senators who have been here for 10, 20, 30 years--will ever debate, study, and vote on. That is all agreed to. And what happened? Now we are filibustering that. American foreign policy and our national security are strongest when the executive branch and the congressional-legislative branch work together. That is when America is its strongest. That is why our Constitution gives powers to both branches of government in terms of foreign policy and national security. Yet every step of the way on this Iran deal of the President, the President and his team have been dismissive of the role of the American people through their representatives in Congress. You have to remember where we began, because the only reason the Iranians actually came to the table was because of the sanctions that this body--Democrats and Republicans--put on the Iranian regime-- American-led sanctions throughout the world.…”