Political Quotes

“this month marks the 1-year anniversary of the nuclear deal reached between a number of world powers and Iran. Let's take a moment to step back and recall where we were when President Obama took office. Our intelligence community assessed that until 2003, Iran was working toward a nuclear bomb. The reckless war in Iraq further empowered Iran. The country's hardliners moved forward at great speed building suspicious nuclear infrastructure. These efforts produced large and unsettling quantities of highly enriched uranium that could have been used for a nuclear weapon. Such a weapon in the hands of the Iranian regime would have been an unacceptable risk to the region, to Israel, and to the world. This is the mess President Obama inherited when he came to office; yet he pledged that Iran would not obtain a nuclear bomb on his watch. And that is exactly what he did. He negotiated a comprehensive deal in which Iran pledged to the world not to build a nuclear bomb and agreed to stringent inspections and terms to ensure that Iran keeps that pledge. And this historic agreement was accomplished without drawing the United States into another war in the Middle East. You see, despite all the naysayers and efforts to undermine this deal--including an unprecedented letter signed by most in the majority party to the hardline Iranian Supreme Leader that aimed to undermine our own President's efforts to negotiate a deal--the agreement is working.…”