Political Quotes

“Abraham Lincoln, when he opened up the Gettysburg Address, said: Few will little note, nor long remember what I say here today. As I rise as the Super Bowl is about to begin, I realize that most people are looking for a view of Taylor Swift and not listening to us. But nonetheless, I feel compelled to come because we are obviously considering important issues. As we know, we are currently discussing a national security bill that would assist Israel after the October 7 attack and resist the efforts of Putin and the Chinese Communist Party. But this issue, importantly, has become entwined with border security, U.S. border security. The way things work--and we all know this in the Chamber but just to specify--if any bill is going to be signed into law, it is because you have good policy, you have good politics, and it has good process. If you don't have those three things on a big bill, then something is not going through. I would like to talk about that policy, politics, process dynamic here and how the process is being used to defeat the passage of good policy. By the way, it is that process which confuses folks, but I will get to that. Let me just first discuss a little bit of the policy. I am speaking as a Republican, a conservative Republican, and I can say that almost all Republicans want to confront the Chinese Communist Party.…”