Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, there is no plan, no funding, no blueprint to use nuclear-tipped interceptors. In fact, we do not have them. We used to, and we disassembled them. But the Soviet Union, now Russia, does indeed have them; and we are doing precisely, if we vote for this motion to recommit, precisely what the Gipper did not want us to do, and that is for Congress to take all the chips off the table when the President has an opportunity to maybe negotiate down or negotiate out that nuclear-tipped Galosh force that Russia maintains around Moscow right now. So let us win one for the Gipper; let us not vote for this motion to recommit. Let me just say one other thing to my Democrat friends. I was all set for a motion to recommit on base closing. What happened to that motion to recommit? I thought that would be what they would offer up here. I would recommend to us that we kind of keep our eye on the ball. The ball is, we are providing in this bill for the Armed Forces of the United States of America. This bill has been the product of literally thousands of hours put in by Members on both sides of the aisle, by the staff. I do not know how the rest of the Members feel, but the last 8 months, I have felt a little bit like it must have been after Pearl Harbor. We were hit by a sneak attack in this country. It killed thousands of our citizens. We came together, and a wave of patriotism and spirit moved across this country.”