Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time--boy, I am glad I yielded. Thank you so much for those words and for the opportunity to participate in this process. Isis Mr. President, I want to change gears to talk about another battle going on in another part of the world, and it is a battle to degrade and destroy ISIS. Recently on the Senate floor, I heard a couple of our colleagues in the majority, I believe, claim that the President, the current administration, is not doing enough to fight ISIS. However, I say to my friends--and they are my friends, they know that--that the majority are forgetting some of the key facts, and I just want to revisit that. The truth is, they are taking the fight to ISIS, and we are making serious progress in the battle to degrade and destroy them. As I like to say, it is not time to spike the football. We are not in the end zone. Maybe we are in the red zone, but progress is being made. I want to talk a little bit about that today. I want to start by directing my attention to this map. For folks who are trying to figure out what this map says, it says that this is Iraq, a big part of this area here is Iraq. Right down here is Iraq. Right here is Baghdad. That is Syria over here. We have Turkey up here, and Iran is over here on the other side of Iraq. A couple of years ago, these folks in ISIS decided they were going to establish their own caliphate, if you will, a country.…”