Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I appreciate you yielding. And, Mr. Blumenauer, thank you for leading on this, Ms. Gabbard and Mr. Stivers as well. This is such an important issue. You know, we're a Nation of commitments, and a lot of the times Washington gets this reputation of Republicans and Democrats don't agree on anything, and we just fight like cats and dogs. I feel like some of that is true, but I think this is a great example of where, frankly, people are coming together to say as a Nation what's the right thing to do here. We've made commitments. We've taken ourselves and made promises to people, and people have put themselves out on the line for us. What's the right thing to do? I would even dare to speculate that those of us that are sponsoring this amendment probably don't even agree on the future of the Iraq war or the Afghanistan war. But we do know that we believe we have to hold to this. As Ms. Gabbard was talking about, there's a lot of unsung heroes in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. I experienced it as well as a pilot in the military as people that were Iraqi nationals, in my case, that really stood up and put their lives on the line in order to fight for a new Iraq, to fight for a new freedom, to provide for their families, and to understand that they want to build an alliance between Iraq and the United States.…”