Political Quotes

“Thank you very much, Mr. President. Once again, I am very pleased to join my friend the Senator from Vermont on the floor to press this body to take seriously its constitutional responsibility and its responsibility to ensure that the United States doesn't enter into hostilities abroad other than in those situations that are vitally necessary to protect our national security interests. I am so proud to have worked with Senator Sanders, Senator Lee, and many others here to build a truly bipartisan coalition that is going to do something that, as Senator Sanders said, is historic. I have been coming down to the Senate floor for 4 years now raising concerns about U.S. participation in this civil war. When the United States first entered into an agreement with the Saudis to help them in their bombing campaign, very few people could probably locate Yemen on the map. Today, it is the subject of national conversation. With passage in the Senate and the House, regardless of what the President chooses to do, the world now knows that the United States is paying attention to the world's worst humanitarian disaster--a nightmare inside Yemen that is taking the lives of tens of thousands of people. Sometimes humanitarian disasters and famines are caused by natural events, those that we cannot control--droughts, for instance. This is a manmade humanitarian catastrophe that the United States has something to say about, and we are going to say something about it in a matter of hours.…”