Political Quotes

“I see another colleague on the floor, so I will make my comments brief. We had a briefing this week in a room in the Capitol that the public is not allowed to enter; it is called the SCIF. It was a briefing that is given to Members of the Senate of top-secret, classified information. It related to the situation in which we now find ourselves in relation to Iran. It was troubling to hear the comments being made by the leaders of the Trump administration--the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State, as well as military leaders and leaders in the intelligence community. You see, what we are engaging in in the United States is a confrontation with Iran. We are moving toward that. It started with this President's insistence that the United States step away from a treaty entered into by the Obama administration to stop the development of nuclear weapons in Iran. What President Obama succeeded in doing over many years of diplomatic effort was to come to the table with Iran--an enemy of the United States on many fronts--and to reach an agreement where there would be international inspectors with free access to Iran to make certain they did not develop nuclear weapons. We believed--the world believed that Iran with nuclear weapons would be a danger to the region, a danger to our ally Israel, and even a danger to the United States. The coalition put together by President Obama was nothing short of remarkable.…”