Political Quotes

“I thank Mr. Gingrey for leading this special order hour tonight and for stepping up front to stand up for freedom and liberty for the American people, for the Iraqi people, and one day, I hope and pray it is for all people on this planet. If there was a theme that came out of prime ministers Al-Maliki's speech today, it was that theme, that theme of freedom and liberty, and that theme that ties us all together when he told that freedom is not an American value, but it is a value that God gives to all humanity. One of the statements that he made, I am not sure if you might have already made this statement, Mr. Gingrey, but I want to emphasize it. And this is one that gripped me when I heard it said this afternoon. Prime Minister Maliki: ``The fate of our country and yours is tied. Should democracy be allowed to fail in Iraq and terror permitted to triumph, then the War on Terror will never be won elsewhere''. Mr. Speaker, we must win this battle in this Global War on Terror, this battleground that is Iraq. There is no alternative but victory. In fact, we are moving down this path in a successful fashion. You just cannot simply every day take a measure of it. It is kind of like going on a diet in the morning and weighing yourself at noon and deciding you want to change your diet. We need to look at milestones. There have been milestones after milestones that have flowed out of Iraq.…”