Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman, and I appreciate his staunch and relentless pursuit of freedom, his defense of our liberty and this tremendous country. I am going to take a few minutes and talk about some things that are going on in the country today that I think need to be addressed. As we ruminate upon these things and consider the direction of this Nation, I feel like I need to, quite frankly, express my gratitude to that thin blue line that spends so much time working, training, making sacrifices on our behalf, the men and women of the police agencies, local, State, and Federal. Every day that they put on that uniform, every shift that they put on that uniform, at any time day or night, and go out, they understand that they could be called upon to sacrifice the full measure of who they are on our behalf, and I thank them. In fact, I was recently talking to a friend of mine who is a police officer, and he expressed to me his concerns because what we are seeing is inexplicable, inexplicable to the rational mind. We understand protests. We appreciate protests. The First Amendment guarantees us that right. We get to stand up. We get to express our disapprobation of our government. In fact, I think back to Thomas Jefferson, and he was asked one time why he refused to take action against a particular individual who slandered him repeatedly. He said: You know what?…”