Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, on October 7, hearts, minds, and lives were forever changed. We believed hatred and murder of Jews to be a thing of the past, but we were heartbreakingly wrong. October 7 will go down as the deadliest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust. Today, our strongest ally in the Middle East, our friend, Israel, is at war after enduring a multipronged terror attack by Hamas. Let me be clear: Hamas is not a militant group. They are terrorists. The atrocities that took place on October 7 by Hamas against innocent Israelis were not the result of provocation. It was a massacre. It was not in response to occupation of the Gaza Strip. It was a massacre. It was not a flare-up. It was a massacre. If you take elderly women, mothers, the disabled, and children hostage, or if you target families and slaughter and torture civilians indiscriminately, you do not get to claim the moral high ground. There can be no confusion about the war between Israel and Hamas. It is good versus evil. It is civilization versus barbarism. It is self- defense against aggression. We must be a voice for the truth, and here is the truth: At least 1,400 Israelis were murdered. More than 4,400 were severely injured. More than 200 hostages were taken to be used as human shields. Twenty- seven Americans are dead, and 10 remain unaccounted for. Make no mistake, Israel is shaken but is not defeated.…”