Political Quotes

“George Santos has built his persona, his personal and his political life, on a foundation of lies. Many of those lies are well-documented. We know that Mr. Santos lied about his education, both graduate and postgraduate, claiming that he attended universities where he was never enrolled and claiming that he obtained degrees that he did not earn. We know that Mr. Santos lied about his employment when he claimed that he worked for two prestigious financial institutions, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. We know that Mr. Santos lied about his religious faith when he said he was Jewish and then later, when called out, said he meant to say he was Jew-ish. We know Mr. Santos lied when he said that he had four employees who were killed in a mass shooting in Florida. Nonetheless, Mr. Speaker, those lies, while troubling, did not justify his removal from this body. However, these and other misleading statements reflect directly on Mr. Santos' credibility. In May, Mr. Speaker, George Santos said that he looked forward to seeing the ethics process play out and that if the committee finds reason to remove him, then that is the process. Today, Mr. Speaker, George Santos would have you believe that the process that he endorsed in May is fatally flawed and that he, instead, is the subject of a political witch hunt. Mr. Santos has described the report issued by the Ethics Committee as slanderous.…”