Political Quotes

“I have been working on this issue almost all of my career in the Congress of the United States. The previous gentleman said: Let's do it right. This does it right. This does it after years and years and years and years and years of consideration. I hesitate because I agree, I think, almost in whole with the remarks that Mr. Westerman has made. Mr. Westerman is a Member of the Congress that I respect. He and I work on things that we think are very important to mankind, here in this country and around the world, in terms of our global environment. America is a great nation. It is a generous nation. I have said throughout the world that America is the least acquisitive great power that has existed in the world. What do I mean by acquisitive? We did not fight wars to take property and to acquire countries, to do what Putin criminally does today. In fact, what we did in those wars in which we have participated in was to build up countries, and they are now democracies: Germany, Japan, Italy, and other nations which we have occupied for a temporary period of time to make sure they were free and help them be free. This bill is about the Puerto Rican people and their island. {time} 1130 And to redeem a premise that we have argued to all the world ought to be central to their policies. That is the right of peoples to self- determination.…”