Political Quotes

“Mr. President, in reserving the right to object, the background that leads up to this moment is worth a minute or 2 to be explained. It was October. We faced some ominous challenges around the world. Our allies and friends were in conflict, and the United States wanted to stand by them. President Biden made a request for a defense supplemental and said: We need to move on this quickly. For example, our friends in Ukraine, who are fighting off the barbaric tactics of Vladimir Putin, need our continued help. We shouldn't waste any time. At the time, several Members of the Senate on the other side of the aisle said: No, you cannot even consider helping Ukraine fight this war against Putin unless you do something about our border. There has got to be a change in our border policy. So there eventually emerged a group that took on the task of writing a bipartisan bill. Make no mistake, legislation on a subject as serious as this will never pass as a partisan piece of legislation. It has to be bipartisan. Both sides of the aisle decided to enlist our colleagues to sit down in a deliberative effort to write a bipartisan border bill to address the crisis we face at the border. The Republicans chose as their spokesperson, as their negotiator, James Lankford of Oklahoma. James Lankford is a certifiable conservative Republican who is respected on both sides of the aisle. I join in that chorus of respect for him. The Republicans said to us: None of these freewheeling efforts.…”