Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I am pleased to join Senator Murphy to discuss the importance of this humanitarian crisis in Yemen. As he so cogently emphasized, this is, at once, a humanitarian crisis and also a security crisis in the region and beyond. I am a new member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and I have to say that I have quickly come to admire Senator Murphy for his forceful advocacy of our values of universal human rights and of American international leadership. So I commend him for his leadership on this issue in particular. I share many of the concerns articulated by Senator Murphy with regard to the situation in Yemen and the Saudi-led coalition there in that country. Before getting into the specific situation in Yemen, however, I think it is important to step back and look at the big picture. The world currently confronts humanitarian crises of a magnitude we haven't seen in many, many years. Parts of Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen are all in famine or prefamine stages. According to the United Nations, 20 million people are at risk of starvation within the next few months in these four countries.…”