Political Quotes

“Madam President, I watched every word of the President's address to the Nation last night, and I have this to say to him: Thank you for your clarity. Thank you for taking the time you needed to put the pieces together so that we don't march into another Iraq war. When I hear my colleagues--cheerleaders for the war in Iraq who told us it would be over in 6 months--come down here and try to lecture this President on how to deal with ISIL, I get the chills. When I watch Dick Cheney come up here to talk to House Republicans and lecture them about how they had it right--had it right? They couldn't have had it more wrong. Because we know that the tragedy of 9/11--and as we revere the heroes and mourn the loss of those on that horrific day--was an attack by Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. It wasn't Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Our then-President Bush turned around--he could have had the whole world in his hand--but instead marches into Iraq. Thank the Lord I voted no on that. I voted yes to going after bin Laden and no to going into Iraq. All those sunny predictions--of the war being only 6 months, and they will have democracy, and we will get the oil and the money, and the rest--turned out to be the worst foreign policy disaster. These same people who backed that war now come down here and tell the President: Look me in the eye and tell me you want to do exactly what I want to do. Well, Mr. President, since they addressed you, I want to address you.…”