Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Texas for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this resolution. If you look at what they are attempting to do, there has been a lot of talk about the 2002 AUMF, Madam Speaker, and I am sure, as Congress has over the years, we will continue to have a healthy debate over what that proper role should be of Congress as it relates to the 2002 AUMF. But that is not what this debate is about. When you read the resolution, in fact, just by its own name, this is not an act of Congress. This isn't even changing the law. So if you want to have a sincere debate over what that power should be that Congress gave to the executive branch, then let's have that debate. But don't try to pass some fig leaf resolution that is only intended to try to undermine the President in the middle of a conflict with the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, Iran. There is no dispute about how bad of an evil terrorist Soleimani was, yet here you hear all of these equivocations: Oh, Soleimani was bad person but. Madam Speaker, how can you sit here and try to apologize for the things that he did by saying that taking him out was wrong? This world is a safer place with Soleimani gone.…”