Political Quotes

“I thank Representative Stansbury for speaking today and for sharing how some of Trump's policies are going to harm her constituents. In her State and near her district are national security workers, atomic scientists at Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs, who were fired and then unfired and are still being threatened with being fired. I am a scientist. I know a lot of people who are in that situation. Damage is done to our national security when you tell people who are working at a national lab, especially a national security lab, that it is not a safe place in terms of being able to depend on an income to raise their families. That does damage to our national security that can never be undone. It is not a small deal, and the fact that some 23-year-old kid with a software background has decided they know more about the workforce that we need to make sure our nuclear weapons are safe and effective is about as bad government as you can ever imagine. I would also like to echo Ms. Stansbury's questions about why does Trump do this. Why does he actually do this? The President's reputation as a great businessman is based on making a series of one-off deals. He is a real estate dealmaker, not a manufacturer, not a businessman who has real customers. He thinks he has done a good deal when he uses all the leverage in his negotiation to make sure that he has really rooked his counterpart, his customer, to the extent possible in his real estate transactions.…”