Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. It is a confusing amendment to me because, looking at what we want to do, I haven't talked to many people who don't think that Iran isn't a bad actor in the region. It is really almost impossible to find anybody except somebody in the Iranian regime who would say that. This basically peacefully works with our partners to say: Let's find a strategy to counter this terrible activity, this terrible regime. Cyber defense. Working together for intelligence. What do we do to come together with our friends to make sure we can counter these destabilizing activities? If this amendment would pass, it would hand a victory to a few people. It would hand a victory to Russia--Russia that has invested a lot in propping up the Assad regime and working with the Iranian regime to do so. This would be a huge victory to Bashar al-Assad, who has killed half a million of his own people simply because he wants to stay in power. Fifty thousand of those are children, by the way. Many of those gasped their last breath on chemical weapons. This would be a victory to Hezbollah, which has 150,000 rockets aimed at our best ally in the Middle East, Israel, that is worried about their future. This is the same Iran that calls Israel ``little Satan'' and the United States ``big Satan.'' And this would be, of course, a huge victory for Iran itself.…”