Political Quotes

“I take us to this path where we are, and I haven't heard the response to the issue of the constitutional constraints that we all have. I have traveled foreign and I have sat in there in diplomatic discussions and debates and I have heard us get off track. I have heard us put our national security at risk, because sometimes the people that were there on the codel weren't tuned in with the administration's policy. I have not seen us take us to the crisis moment, but I have seen the precipice of the crisis moment. But our founders understood this clearly and that is why they laid that responsibility in the hands of the President of the United States to conduct our foreign policy. That is why he appoints the Ambassadors. That is why he negotiates the treaties. That is why 200 years of tradition and history and constitutional law takes us down this path. And if we can ignore our oath to the Constitution, then on top of that, how can we ignore the Logan Act, which is the only controlling Federal statute that we have? The Logan Act says no citizen of the United States shall take foreign policy into their own hands. Our Speaker clearly traveled to a terrorist-sponsored state against the express wishes of the President of the United States.”