Political Quotes

“Mr. President, it is an honor to be here with all of you to give this maiden speech, and I want to thank the senior Senator from Missouri. We may be the youngest combo. He is younger than I, but he is the senior Senator. He reminds me of that quite often as we speak to groups. But I want to thank him for his leadership. Senator Blunt is also here, whom I followed in the Senate. When Benjamin Franklin exited the Constitutional Convention, he was asked what type of government the delegates had come up with. He famously replied: A republic, if you can keep it. Those words are as significant today as they were a couple hundred years ago, especially as two major threats loom over our Republic: a supercharged administrative State and the unprecedented stifling of free speech. If you want to understand some of the frustration that is out there, a lot of it comes from the fact that people believe there is a narrowing of the bandwidth of acceptable speech--what they can say, what they can hear. As it relates to the administrative state, a lot of people are frustrated that no matter whom they send here, they feel like sometimes things never really change, and we must fix that. But first, let's back up. Years before Franklin's famous remark, ordinary folks--farmers, blacksmiths, laborers, leatherworkers--who made up the Continental militias achieved something extraordinary.…”