Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I am reserving the right to object. With all due respect to my good friend and colleague from New Hampshire, we both served on the Foreign Relations Committee. The Foreign Relations Committee is, as it has been noted, the committee of jurisdiction on this matter. We are talking about the Paris climate agreement. What Senator Shaheen is attempting to do with this--and, again, with all due respect, I understand where she is coming from on it--is to stop the President from withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement that was made by his predecessor, President Obama. Let me say, first of all, that the Senator is right that the changes we are experiencing are great. They have large effects. They are of great magnitude. Just as importantly, the changes we make attempting to address this are going to have great magnitude. In a great magnitude, they are going to affect the American people both financially and in the quality of life and the lifestyle they enjoy. We can't do anything about the changes that are occurring right now, but what we can do is to do something about the way we attack this, the way we make changes to our lifestyle and what we will give up and what people are willing to give up in order to address this. The way this is done is nations get together to talk about this--the 200 nations get together. They did, and they came up with the Paris climate agreement. Under article II of the U.S.…”