Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, when I reflect on the incident of the weekend when the two L.A. County deputies were shot and they had to tend to each other and apply first aid to each other, and they were rushed to the hospital, the rigid cruelty of the mob that gathered at the hospital trying to block an ambulance from accessing the emergency room, accompanied with hateful shouts and taunts, as evidence of the loss of goodness in our society. The feckless leaders of some States and cities that have not only permitted the destruction of property, but the wasting of lives and livelihoods are without heart, as well. In many cases they have not only stood by watching the wreckage, they have fomented the rioting, looting, the murder, and mayhem. {time} 1700 One of the enemies of a free society is one who will appease people who are intent on destroying the rights of individuals within that society, those who permit and encourage by inaction criminal conduct. We saw this when the Portland mayor, Ted Wheeler, was driven from his own home because the mob had turned on him. He is not alone. Winston Churchill once noted that an appeaser is someone who feeds others to the alligators with the hopes that he will be eaten last. That is what is being lived out in some American cities before our eyes today. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Cloud), my friend.”