Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator for joining me in this endeavor here today. It is important that we speak out about this. In a moment, the majority leader will be here with some procedural matters that will, I guess, take the Senate to a different posture. Before that happens, I wanted to close by not just thanking him for being a part of this but by making a couple more points. The first is, I want you to imagine for a moment, if you are sitting at the Kremlin and you are watching on satellite television the debate going on in American politics today, you are probably feeling pretty good about yourself. You have one group arguing that maybe the elections weren't legitimate because the Russians interfered. In essence, there have been news reports about a tension between the President and the Intelligence Committee. You have these reports every single day back and forth. You are looking at all this chaos, and you are saying to yourself: We did a pretty good job. If what we wanted to do was to divide the American people against each other, have them at each other's throats, arguing about things, and sowing chaos and instability into their political process, I think you look at the developments of the last 6 weeks and 6 months, and if you are in the Kremlin, you say: Well, our efforts have been pretty successful with that. I think that is the first thing we need to understand. The second thing is, this should all be about partisanship. I am a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.…”