Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I want to spend a few minutes talking about the President's nominee to be Comptroller of the Currency and her recent comments on those of us who were asking questions about her background, because they are pretty outrageous, and I think it is time. In some ways, we need to put an end to this notion that you can't criticize someone for their ideas without being charged with things like, maybe, racism, which kind of gets me a little bit riled up, since I think I was one of the targets of her remarks. I have been down on the floor talking about some of the nominees that this administration has put forward. Some are so radical, far left. The ATF nominee was actually against the Second Amendment. He got withdrawn. The BLM Director was an ecoterrorist. She got voted in. Now she is in charge of 60 percent of my State--remarkable. I think a lot of Senators are going to regret that vote. And now we have a nominee to be the Comptroller of the Currency: Saule Omarova. She is charged with chartering, regulating, and supervising all national banks--a really important position, for a capitalist economy, in particular. There is a problem, though, Mr. President. It doesn't seem like she much likes banks or, for that matter, the free market or, for that matter, capitalism or the financial system in America. So Senators have been coming down to the floor and in committee, asking questions, doing our due diligence on this nominee.…”