Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise today, alongside my colleagues, including Senator Coons and Senator Murray, to implore my colleagues to hold firm in their support of Ukraine. I have sat here for the last hour and listened to these speeches and listened to some of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle--which, I know, does not reflect all of them--and this is what I came away with: the focus on ``Oh, you just want to go backward,'' the analogies to talking about past decisions in Munich and Vietnam. We all are students of history. I am focused on now. I am focused on what is happening now. Like my colleagues here, I have strongly condemned the massacre, the terrorist attack by Hamas--and the democracy of Israel. We stand with Israel and the right to defend, but we also stand with the idea that we should continue to provide humanitarian relief in Gaza and around the world. I think one of the ironies of the statement of our colleague from Ohio--and some of our other colleagues--was that he failed to mention that, actually, Israel has come out this week also supporting the humanitarian aid. So that is one thing that I think needs to get corrected. The second, as we look at where we are now, he mentioned Vladimir Putin, called him ``a bad guy.'' Those were his words, ``a bad guy.'' I think it is a lot more than that. This is a tyrant. This is a ruler who has committed war crimes, who has downed passenger planes, who has invaded a democracy.…”