Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I come to the floor to join many of my colleagues in expressing grave alarm over the choice of Pete Hegseth to run the Department of Defense. It is not hyperbole to say that we have never seen a candidate--at least in modern times--to lead our soldiers and our troops who is as dangerously and woefully unqualified as Pete Hegseth. I think everybody understands his primary qualification. He was on TV during the weekends, when Donald Trump would watch FOX News--period, stop--because as we have learned more about Pete Hegseth--his history of sexual misconduct, his history of public drunkenness, his history of financial mismanagement--it appears as if there must be thousands of other people who were easily more qualified. But I want to talk today about his qualifications, his views that he has made known on television, that he has expressed to the committee about how he would do the job. I think his history of personal misconduct, in and of itself, is disqualifying. It is just an embarrassment to the country, at a moment when we want to win more friends and allies. It is just the wrong match for a Department that oversees the moral and professional development of young men and women to have somebody like that, with that kind of history, leading the Agency. But it is also important on the views that he has expressed on how he would run the Department of Defense, because I fear he will run it into the ground.…”