Political Quotes

“The next piece that I want to talk about is our national security. As we are watching presidential debates unfold--and our 16 or so candidates that are announced for President of the United States, I am grateful for every one of them. I have never seen such a field of candidates that step up and want to serve this country from the Oval Office, the high quality of the character and the integrity that they have, the varied experience, and the success that they have demonstrated in their lives. There have been a lot of easier times to win the Republican nomination than there is now, Mr. Speaker. As I look at the candidates that are out there--and I have been tuning my ear, encouraging them--I have yet to hear any of the candidates deliver a compact, inclusive approach to how to defeat Islamic jihad. I listen to them speak, and I like the components that I hear from them. One of them says: We win; they lose. I like that; but how are we going to do that? We need a strategy. One of them says: If you attack us, we will kill you. Okay. Well, let's kill them first. That is fine with me. They have declared war on us. ISIS, for example, has established a caliphate. They declare it to be a caliphate. It is a caliphate. In northern Syria and in north and western Iraq, that real estate that they control is a caliphate, and they threaten all of the rest of the region, and they threaten us. They say that their black flag is going to fly over the White House.…”