Political Quotes

“I stand in this well in support of my colleague's request as the Senator representing both the State first impacted by the President's abuse of our military and one against which he has threatened further action and deployment. So here we are. The President deploys thousands of members of the California National Guard on the streets of Los Angeles, against the wishes of the mayor and Governor. Here we are. The President tells the Marines--those who have trained to land on beachheads and be the tip of the spear--that their next mission will be Los Angeles. These might sound like hypothetical scenarios or the futuristic plot of some film, but this is what actually happened. And the President did not stop there. From Los Angeles, he turned to our Nation's Capital. He put the National Guard on corner after corner and even called on them to, well, pick up trash--because this has never been about crime or quelling some kind of rebellion or insurrection for the President who refused to act when our Capitol was under actual insurrection on January 6. This has never been about public safety. It has been about control. It has been about crushing dissent. It has been about using our troops as political pawns to show anyone in any city in America that the President is not to be crossed.”