Political Quotes

“It is my honor to be recognized to address you here on the floor of the House of Representatives, and I have a couple of topics that I intend to take up for the folks here watching and listening. Madam Speaker, I want to talk about the Heartbeat bill and I want to talk about the immigration bill and the tax policy all together. But there is an important issue before this Congress that I want to hear about before I take up these issues. And for that purpose, I would be happy to yield to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. DeSantis) to get this off of his heart. Mr. DeSANTIS. Madam Speaker, I thank my friend from Iowa for his leadership. Madam Speaker, it was really distressing to hear that Christ Church in Alexandria is removing a monument honoring its most famous parishioner, George Washington. It just made me think: What is this world coming to? Now, Christ Church is free to do as it pleases, but I think we are also free to criticize such an absurd course of action. If we can't honor the Father of our Country, then we truly are drowning in a sea of knee-jerk political correctness. George Washington was one of the few truly great men, an American original without whom we would not be standing here today as free people. I just want to tick off a few things before I yield back to my colleague from Iowa, but this is important.…”