Political Quotes

“I come here, like my colleague, to defend the Constitution of the United States of America. Since George Washington was President and he had to deal with a Congress, every President has had to deal with a Congress or Members of Congress who really wanted to be the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States. The Founding Fathers wisely said that that power should lie in the hands of the Commander in Chief, the President of the United States. Over many, many years, Presidents have used military force to protect the United States of America. Indeed, they take an oath that they will do so. Not only do they have the right to do so, they have the duty to do so. So what are we talking about here? Donald Trump has made the observation, as has every American, that we are losing tens of thousands of Americans, both young and old alike, to illegal drugs that are brought to this country by terrorist organizations mainly. As a result of that, we have done, as has been suggested, law enforcement activities within the United States, outside the United States. And we have picked away at it and picked away at it, and it simply has not been effective. What Donald Trump decided to do was to take appropriate military action against an invasion. That invasion comes from those terrorists. They invade the United States of America with boats loaded with this poison.”