Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the President just announced that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. The President says he wants a better deal. So do a lot of us. The fact is, we need to keep pressure on Iran with additional economic sanctions that will stop it from developing ICBM missiles. That was not part of the Iran nuclear agreement. We need to ratchet up the pressure on Iran in order to stop its ICBM missile program. Pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal is a tragic mistake. It will divide us from our European allies, and it will allow Iran to build a nuclear weapon--a nuclear bomb--within a year, as compared to 7 to 12 years in the future if we stay in the agreement. I think keeping an atomic weapon out of a radical religious outfit like Iran, headed by an Ayatolla, is clearly in the free world's interest. Certainly, it is for the free world. Clearly, it is for the United States, as it is for all of our allies. That is why the United States had such broad support in an agreement that Iran not build a nuclear weapon. Pulling out of this agreement risks all of the unprecedented restrictions on Iran's nuclear program that are in place right now--the hundreds of visits by the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and its ability to get in behind locked doors. Before this agreement, we never had that kind of insight into Iran. Now is the time to continue ramping up the pressure on Iran, not to back off, as pulling out of the agreement will cause us to do.…”