Political Quotes

“I rise to debate that motion and support Senator Dodd in his motion. I am very proud to be joining with him in the Dodd-Stabenow amendment concerning fully providing the resources for our first responders in our communities all across America. I appreciate the constraints our chairman is working under, but I cannot imagine a more important issue for all of us today than this particular amendment. This is not a partisan amendment. The terrorists who come do not decide who is a Republican or who is a Democrat, where one lives, their age or ethnic background. This is an issue for all of us as Americans, certainly for the people who work in this building who were directly in the line of attack on September 11, certainly for all of those across the country who understand that this is a new world since September 11, 2001. When it comes to protecting our country from terrorists, we should do whatever it takes, period, to make sure we are safe. We cannot live by artificial limits, by bureaucratic budget procedures. Just as Congress has come together, working with the President, and said whatever our military needs, whatever it takes to prepare our men and women to be successful overseas, to support our military, to support our Department of Defense, we will do, period, to make sure our people are safe abroad as well as at home. We should do no less.”