Political Quotes

“thank you. Last week at the NATO summit in Brussels, the leaders of all 29 member states, including the United States with President Trump, signed a declaration reaffirming the purpose of the alliance--collective defense and the importance of article 5, which regards being attacked against one ally as an attack against all others. There may be a growing sense here in the United States that NATO is no longer useful to our interests and that it is a burden that is not worth the cost. I recently traveled to Moscow, Oslo, and Helsinki with members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, many of us on the Subcommittee on Defense. We had meetings with U.S. Embassy officials, our Ambassadors, and foreign government officials--people within the ministries of foreign affairs, ministries of defense, and with legislative leaders in that region. At my meetings in Moscow, we worked to begin a dialogue with Russian counterparts. Everything I heard in those meetings reinforces my belief that Russia remains a threat to European stability and that a united NATO is essential to countering the threat and preserving American peace and prosperity. Two wars in Europe last century resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of American lives who fought the forces of tyranny.…”