Political Quotes

“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am pleased and honored to yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. McCotter), a member of the Financial Services Committee, a former member of our Foreign Affairs Committee. I would like to remind my good friend that we still have a GOP vacancy in our committee and we need freedom and democracy believers like the gentleman from Michigan; seniority retained. Mr. McCOTTER. I thank the gentlelady. I thank her for her kind words and her attempt to draft me. In this age of hope and peril, today we all assemble with earnestness and sincerity to discuss matters of liberty and tyranny, matters of life and death. {time} 1320 What we see in Afghanistan is a counterinsurgency operation being led by the United States. It is the most difficult and painful type of military operation to witness because it does involve working with the population, winning hearts and minds, and helping to build the institutions of democracy and liberty at the community and national levels, which have been nonexistent for decades. Yet because the cause is difficult, it does not mean we can turn away from it, because the Afghan people cannot turn away from it. In 2006, I was fortunate to be on a CODEL with many of my colleagues, and we had the opportunity to meet women who were serving in the Afghan National Assembly.…”