Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I rise today to offer my amendment that utilizes the Holman rule to reduce the salary of U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield to $1. Ms. Thomas-Greenfield has been entrusted with representing the United States on the world stage and has done a terrible job. She made the decision to allow the U.S. to rejoin the anti-Semitic United Nations Human Rights Council, which routinely ignores some of the world's worst atrocities and grants membership to countries with egregious human rights violations, giving countries like China, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Pakistan, and Somalia an international platform to speak on human rights. Rather than focusing on China's systematic oppression of millions of Uyghur Muslims or the inhumane treatment of women and ethnic religious minorities across the Middle East, this council disproportionately targets the State of Israel. She was also involved in the decision to resume funding the U.N. Population Fund account, which supports coercive abortion and involuntary sterilization. During her Senate confirmation, Ms. Thomas-Greenfield expressed support for taxpayer-funded abortions in foreign countries. In 2021, Ms. Thomas-Greenfield was quoted saying: ``White supremacy is woven into America's founding documents and principles.'' In the same speech she went on to say: ``We have to acknowledge that we are an imperfect Union and have been since the beginning . .…”