Political Quotes

“If that is a question for me, I reject the premise of your question. I am not harming law enforcement; I am standing up for law enforcement. Once again, if you deny four U.S. marshals legal representation because they stood up to leftwing street militias--which may be unpopular in certain quarters of your party--then you cause every marshal across the country and, for that matter, every law enforcement official across the country to doubt whether their political superiors are going to defend them in the future. Look, if you want to have a broader debate about law enforcement, I can, but we are going to be here for a long time. It is your party that voted in lockstep for the FIRST STEP Act that let thousands of violent felons back on the street who have now committed innumerable violent crimes. It is your party that marched and chanted in the streets for defunding the police. It is the Democratic floor leader who blocked my resolution in the summer of 2020 to condemn the ``defund the police'' movement. You all voted in lockstep to confirm Vanita Gupta, the Associate Attorney General, who is responsible ultimately for these decisions, even though I and other Republicans cautioned you she would use her position to wage a war on the police from the Department of Justice. That is what is happening now. I am standing up for law enforcement.”