Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, every American who loves freedom, democracy, and public integrity this week is expressing solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of anticorruption protesters in Russia who took to the streets on Sunday. That huge throng of brave Russians, including hundreds arrested and jailed by agents of Vladimir Putin, were protesting the autocrats and kleptocrats running their country, a key target being Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who has amassed vineyards, luxury yachts, and mansions worth more than $1 billion. We should be standing with the protesters, but the corrupt autocrats of Russia have found good friends in the billionaire Cabinet of international businessman Donald Trump, whose administration is administering a spreading staph infection: disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who was paid by Russian companies to appear at Russian events; Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, former CEO of ExxonMobil and a close friend of Vladimir Putin who was awarded in 2013 a title of nobility called the Russian Order of Friendship; Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager who collected $10 million a year to advance the agenda of Russia and Russian oligarchs. We should be standing with the protesters. Two-thirds of Americans want to see a complete, independent 9/11-style investigation into the Russian connection, and we owe them no less. ____________________”