Political Quotes

Matt Salmon

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Quotes by year · 19952016287 total · peak 2016 (73)
1995: 9 quotes1996: 12 quotes1997: 8 quotes1998: 7 quotes1999: 22 quotes2000: 7 quotes2013: 52 quotes2014: 50 quotes2015: 47 quotes2016: 73 quotes
Dec 5, 2016

I don't know why we think it works with China. But it has been the policy of multiple administrations to practice strategic ambiguity.

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Dec 5, 2016

We are no longer a bunch of pushovers here. We have people--we have a strong leader, and we are going to make sure the world is a safer place.

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Dec 5, 2016

I have long championed enhancing our engagement with the Asia-Pacific and our friends and our allies in the region.

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Dec 5, 2016

My experience in dealing with humanitarian crises all over the world has been that the best deliverer of services, bar none, that I have seen anywhere on the globe are faith-based NGOs and faith-based initiatives.

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Dec 5, 2016

The Trans-Pacific Partnership may be end up being the administration's most lasting failure.

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Dec 5, 2016

I had predicted that that would be a smooth transition, it really would be one country, two systems. And Mr. Rohrabacher, I will say to you right now, with egg all over my face, I was wrong.

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Dec 5, 2016

We are going to do this until you figure out that it is in your interest to end your support of their nuclear program.

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Dec 5, 2016

I think it would be really tragic, really tragic, if we are not able to get the Indian Government to rethink this whole process in the name of the children.

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Sep 26, 2016

I think China is the 100-pound gorilla. And, so far, I don't think they have even come close to doing responsibly what they could and should do.

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Sep 26, 2016

The last thing we want to do is squander these opportunities today and end up in a kinetic war.

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Sep 26, 2016

I think that the logic of that threat is persuasively in favor of an additional agreement between the two militaries.

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Sep 26, 2016

We can't withdraw from the region. I think there would be disastrous consequences.

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Sep 26, 2016

Their economy is in the tank, and the people are starving.

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Sep 26, 2016

We have to stand by those allies and our commitments there.

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Sep 26, 2016

It is not a given that we can't change that trajectory.

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Sep 21, 2016

If we want to have a horrible problem, let's just ignore it because the more and more China bullies some of our partners.

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Sep 13, 2016

I don't think most of us are very trustful that Kim Jong-un is an honest broker.

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Sep 7, 2016

Today I rise in support of House Resolution 634, recognizing the importance of the United States-Republic of Korea- Japan trilateral relationship to counter North Korean threats and nuclear proliferation, and to ensure regional security…

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Jul 11, 2016

I personally believe that we should completely cut off all funding to Pakistan.

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Jul 11, 2016

I think there certainly is--I understand that we think we are doing good, but in the end, as you said, they are treating us like chumps.

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Jul 11, 2016

Most of the voters that I come into contact with wonder why in the heck we give people money that actually aid and abet those that commit terrorist acts across the globe.

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Jul 11, 2016

I personally believe that right now we have the worst policy that we could possibly have, and all we are doing is rewarding thugs.

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Jul 11, 2016

I can't even contemplate why on God's green earth we even thought for a nanosecond about the F-16 sale.

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Jul 11, 2016

We have been manipulated by a lot of countries. North Korea is an example.

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