Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the President of the United States has fully refused to acknowledge the depth and prevalence of the savagery of Islamic terrorism, and he has refused to offer and implement a strategy to permanently defeat it. We are all too familiar with the consequences of Islamic terrorism: Fort Hood, Boston, Oklahoma, Chattanooga, Ankara, Mali, Beirut, Paris, and more recently, San Bernardino. While the President was in Paris recently, he lectured the American people not on the moral necessity to destroy ISIS but instead on our supposed lack of compassion and understanding regarding his latest plan to resettle 10,000 Middle Eastern refugees in America. I represent the great State of North Carolina. It is a State that has provided refuge to those who have fought and died on America's side-- the South Vietnamese, Laotians, Montagnards, and Cambodians. But the President's remarks were disingenuous, because what he didn't tell the American people is that his own FBI Director has warned of America's inability to properly vet the refugees--an inability that only requires a 1 in 10,000 chance to produce a catastrophic and tragic result. Instead of acknowledging these well-founded concerns, the President hectored the critics of his plan--Republicans, Democrats, and everyone else in between--even after French authorities told him several members of the terrorist cell got into France masquerading as Syrian refugees.…”