Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I do want to reflect on the comments of my friend, Mr. Hill, because he brings up a really important point. It is vitally important to understand that Iran connects a lot of dots: Iran is funding Hamas that attacked Israel and massacred 1,400 people and took 240 hostages, including Americans. Iran is providing weapons to Russia in their attack on Ukraine. Iran is selling oil to China. The war in Gaza and the war in Ukraine have a lot of common denominators. Both are wars against democracies with the intent of wiping out those democracies, but no intent, either with Putin in Russia or Hamas against Israel, in stopping there. The United States has an important role in leading and bringing together the world to support our allies in Ukraine and Israel. That is why it is so important that, as we stand here in a most perilous time, we unite as a body in this Congress to support our allies, not to divide, not to use political gamesmanship to use Israel as a partisan wedge, but to say we will stand together and support our allies. That is why I call our folks to come to this body and support the President's supplemental request. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”