Political Quotes

“Reserving the right to object, I join the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in being supportive of Iron Dome, but I think it should be paid for. I think the American taxpayer dollars that pay for it should come from money that could go to the Taliban. There is a fund with over $6 billion in it that was designated for the Afghan Government, and that money, I think, could be spent on the Taliban if we do not rescind that money. The justification for my proposal for paying this is simple: Only an economically strong United States can be a militarily strong ally of Israel. I support Israel. I voted for hundreds of millions of dollars to support Iron Dome. I am glad the United States has a strong bond with Israel. But the United States cannot give money it does not have, no matter how strong our relationship is. The United States is approaching $30 trillion in debt. Our out-of- control spending added $3 trillion to this debt just in this fiscal year. A day of reckoning is coming, sooner than you think. Interest on the debt will be larger than what we spent on national defense in just a few years. If the debt weakens us to the point where we have difficulty funding our own military needs, how can the United States continue to be a reliable ally to Israel? Getting our fiscal house in order does not mean that we are failing to support Israel--far from it.…”