Political Quotes

“Our colleagues don't seem to want to talk about the chaos and the violence and the bloodshed that has been unleashed on the people of Ukraine. I am really shocked that they don't want to talk about it, but they want to talk about free speech. Great. Let's talk about free speech in Russia. More than 15,000 people arrested and detained as they crush the antiwar movement in Russia, as he jails political opponents in Russia. And they haven't said a word about that. Have they said anything about the opponents of the war in Russia who have been thrown into jail? No. They are talking about a board in America that I wasn't even aware existed--I am not sure it does--that has never thrown anybody in a jail. How do they feel about Russian critics of the war being thrown into jail? How do they feel about more than 8 million Ukrainians who have been displaced by the war, who are living in the homes of the Polish people who have heroically opened their doors to them? They say nothing about that. Do they think that Vladimir Putin is the leader of a democracy? Is there any one of them who will stand up and say that Vladimir Putin is an autocrat, an authoritarian, a would-be totalitarian? Do any of them remember that Vladimir Putin was the head of the KGB? Is that their ideal model for civil liberties? Vladimir Putin, who said that the collapse of the Soviet Union is the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century?…”