Political Quotes

“I am grateful to my colleague Senator Shaheen of New Hampshire, as well as Senator Bennet of Colorado, Senator Cardin of Maryland, and I will be followed by Senator Peters of Michigan. We are among the group, but we are hardly the only ones who feel so passionately about this issue. For anyone who has visited Ukraine--and I have been there four times over the last couple of years--seeing and hearing are so powerfully inspiring, so deeply moving. I will never forget my first visit after the invasion when I went to President Zelenskyy's office--really a bunker--and spoke to him about what it was like to have the Russians literally 10 minutes away by car from his door. Then I went to Bucha, where I saw the remains of Russian tanks where they were stopped by Ukrainians using handheld missiles in the snow against these huge weapons of war, but simply by dint of their courage and indomitable spirit, they stopped the Russians--but only at Kyiv's doorstep. President Zelenskyy told me then and he has told me since: We will fight with pitchforks if we need to. We don't need your soldiers. We need your help. We need the military equipment that you can provide. He told us they needed more Javelins, and we provided them later than we should have. He said: We need HIMARS artillery. He said: We need ATACMS. We provided them later than we should have. Bradley and Stryker vehicles. Again, we provided them later than we should have. Of course, Abrams tanks and F-16s.…”