Political Quotes

“Mr. President, while my friend's remarks on the motives of Democrats are fresh in people's minds, let me address this directly. There is a new President today, but there is a different policy, and that is what this resolution is about. Let me be very clear about what we are talking about today. Senator Graham would have you believe that we are about to vote on the entirety of the $110 billion in arms sales that was proposed--that was unveiled--by President Trump during his visit to Saudi Arabia. That is not the case. We are voting today on $500 million of that $110 billion sale. You can still be friends with Saudi Arabia and sell it $109.5 billion worth of arms rather than $110 billion worth of arms. The specific set of arms that we are talking about--precision-guided munitions that are going to be used to perpetuate the Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen--was the specific set of weapons that the Obama administration refused to transfer to the Saudis at the end of 2016. We did not take a vote on this in 2016. We took a vote on a different arms sale. It is not simply that there is a new President and that Democrats are objecting to the arms sale that President Trump is moving forward with. It is that we have a new policy. This specific set of munitions that President Trump is asking us to consent to is one that President Obama would not sell. The policy is different, not just the personnel. Let's talk about why the policy is different.…”