Political Quotes

“I want to thank my friend and colleague and chair of the Republican Women's Policy Committee, Congresswoman Renee Ellmers, for leading the charge on this Special Order so that we can discuss issues of national security. As we have heard, Madam Speaker, and will continue to hear tonight, there is no shortage of national security threats that are facing us today. That is not what should scare us. What should scare us is that the Obama administration has no strategy, no plan in place, to address some of the most serious threats that are out there. Perhaps the most pressing issue currently facing U.S. national security, the security of our friend and ally, really--the Democratic Jewish State of Israel--and, indeed, global security is a nuclear-armed Iran. {time} 1645 If we want to discuss national security threats, we can spend all day discussing the ones the administration just set into motion when it and the rest of the P5+1 nations announced this nuclear agreement with Iran. Let's set aside for a moment, Madam Speaker, the fact that the administration just guaranteed that Iran will become a nuclear threshold state as a result of this deal, and we can all set our timers on when that first Iranian bomb will be produced thanks to this weak and dangerous deal.…”