Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time for the purpose of closing. I thank Ranking Member Turner for his leadership and for his support of our common alliance and our defense in these critical and dangerous times that we are living in. I want to reflect on why I think this resolution is so important, and it is an inflection point that Chairman Keating and so many of us feel with regard to global history. As I said, this is a test of our time as to whether or not democracies will be willing to stand together for the common values we share, for the rule of law, for a rules-based economy, and for all the freedoms we cherish that we share in common. Simply stated, this is a choice about good and evil. For the first time in eight decades, we have seen a full-scale land invasion in Europe instigated, resulting in an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Think about this. The alliances that we have created post-World War II, beginning with the Marshall Plan and then NATO and the European Union, and everything that has followed since that, have resulted in one of the largest peacetime periods in Europe in over 1,000 years. Think about that. What we have also, obviously, learned the hard way is that these unconscionable crimes committed against the Ukrainian people, I think, constitute a form of genocide.…”