Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 4038. This legislation will give us a pause to ensure that a benevolent safe haven in America is not used by terrorists to murder a large number of Americans. After the slaughter in Paris, it behooves us to take a close look to see to it that Americans will not be put in jeopardy by an irresponsible refugee policy or by flaws in our own system that already exist. We can be proud that our country has a tradition of assisting suffering refugees, but we will not be consistent with that by putting Americans in jeopardy. What could we do that might make the system better, improve the system, protect more Americans? If we pause for a moment, we might come up with some ideas. For example, let me be the first on the floor of the House to advocate that all people coming here, especially from the Middle East, be given polygraph tests. Let's give them a lie detector test to find out who they are. This shouldn't be an option for our embassies. It should be a requirement for our embassies to give such polygraph tests. Finally, we have heard several references to the Jews being sent back in 1938 to Nazi Germany. Well, the Jews had been targeted for genocide. It was wrong, it was horrible, and it was immoral for us to send them back and not recognize they had been targeted for genocide. Well, today the Christians in the Middle East are targeted for genocide. I hear over here: Oh, no, you are not going to let anybody in but Christians. No.…”