Political Quotes

“Mr. President, let me say at the outset that I thank the Senator from Kentucky for his words on the floor in support of assistance to Ukraine in its hour of need. I thank him for being consistent in that message. Yesterday, after months of delay, 17 Republican Senators joined in a bipartisan effort to advance critical security and humanitarian aid. I want to thank them for stepping up and urge them to continue moving this bill to final passage and moving it to passage in the House of Representatives. All the while, while we were giving our speeches here on the floor of the Senate and other places, Vladimir Putin has been sitting back and waiting for the United States to finally walk away from the Ukrainians, as they fight bravely to repel his bloody onslaught. Putin is hoping that Donald Trump will be reelected and that this Congress will discontinue aid to Ukraine. Meanwhile, the ``message man'' for the MAGA movement, Tucker Carlson, was in Moscow interviewing the former communist KGB agent Vladimir Putin, hoping, no doubt, to further his cynical strategy. Is there anyone here who could remotely have imagined that many in the party of Ronald Reagan and John McCain would be actively voting against aid to stop Russian tyranny, that they would bend to the will of former President Trump, who has spoken favorably of the Russian despot? This photograph captures a moment a few years ago.…”