Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the Federal Government's No. 1 responsibility is to protect the American people. As the Obama administration approaches its final months, the American people still do not feel, with any degree of confidence, that Washington is taking the proper steps to carry out that responsibility. The Islamic State terror group has repeatedly encouraged sympathizers in the West to launch domestic attacks. In the group's self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq, it continues to carry out atrocities on a daily basis. ISIS has no intention of letting up, and the President's strategy of scattered attacks is doing little to slow the terror groups' strength. A group President Obama once dubbed the JV team has become a clear and serious threat during his watch. That is just one of the many failures during this administration's foreign policy which is rooted in wishful thinking rather than grounded in reality. The idea that we can wish away the Nation's threats that our Nation faces by passively withdrawing from the international stage is a dangerous approach. It is this mentality that the President and his aides used to justify not calling jihadi attacks what they are, radical Islamic terrorism. The President has convinced himself that radical Islamic terrorism will not be a threat if we just call it something else. Clearly, this is not true. It is the same mindset that thinks closing Gitmo and moving dangerous terrorists to U.S.…”