Political Quotes

“I guess the good news is that I am rising today not to speak about the fiscal cliff. What I am speaking about is not good news because it deals with the tragic event that occurred in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, when terrorists took the lives of our Ambassador, Chris Stevens, and three other brave Americans who were serving us there. I rise today, along with the ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Senator Collins, to submit for the Record the report she and I have been working on with our staffs and other members of the committee following those events in Libya. We call this report ``Flashing Red: A Special Report On The Terrorist Attack At Benghazi.'' ``Flashing red'' is a term that was used in a conversation with us by an official of the State Department, and it could not have been more correct. All the evidence was flashing red that we had put American personnel in Benghazi in an increasingly dangerous situation, with violent Islamic extremists gathering there, with events having occurred, attacks on our mission there--two others prior that year. Yet we did not give them the security they needed to protect them, and we did not make the decision that I believe we should have made, since we did not provide them with the security, that we should have closed our mission there. As a result, people really suffered.…”