Political Quotes

“Madam President, some of my Democratic colleagues want you to believe any opposition to their agenda is evil and unjustified. They have claimed for weeks that mere questions about the $95 billion--$95 billion--bill the Senate is now considering are rooted in some radical, rightwing, anti-democracy conspiracy, and the liberal press prints these lies as gospel. It has destroyed the Senate and ignores the history of our great Nation. One of the first decisions facing our new Republic was whether to engage in the conflict raging between French revolutionaries and an alliance of European nations led by Great Britain. As we know, President George Washington ultimately decided to remain neutral in that conflict, knowing the new nation was not prepared to assume the grand responsibilities of supporting a cause, no matter how noble, while properly attending to the pressing matters facing his new government here at home. America was cash strapped and war weary. In the centuries that have passed since that moment, our great Nation has evolved. The United States has grown into the leader of the free world, the true global superpower, representing the ideals of liberty, freedom, and democracy, and standing staunchly against oppression and tyranny wherever they are found. We no longer must wrestle with these decisions the ways our Founders did, but we still face tremendous domestic challenges that I am sure Washington, Hamilton, and Jefferson could never have imaged in April of 1793.…”