Political Quotes

“I continue to be baffled about why some of my colleagues think that opening the Government of the United States--our government--is a poison pill and something they can't support. Look how far we have fallen, Madam Speaker. We are voting for billions of dollars in aid to the people of Florida, and the people of Texas and California and Puerto Rico, so we can deal with the mounting natural crises and emergencies around the country. We need to open the government to do it, and there are those who say that is too high a price. They want to get the aid to the people, but it is too high a price to reopen our own government. We can't find an example of another democratic country where the chief executive has shut down his own government the way that President Trump has done in this case. We know that he expresses a lot of admiration for Vladimir Putin in Russia and for Orban in Hungary and for Duterte in the Philippines and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, who recently ordered out for the assassination of a journalist for The Washington Post. Those are his friends. Those are the people he looks up to. So maybe he thinks this is a normal way of doing business. Well, it is not in the United States of America. Let them close the government in Russia. Let them send the workforce in Hungary home. Let them put the civil servants in the Philippines at rest. Why don't they shut down the government of Saudi Arabia?…”