Political Quotes

“last night, I had someone reach out to me and say they heard I was going to speak again on Ukraine on the floor, and they asked me what I was going to talk about. I said to reinforce that Ukraine needs our help, that Europe needs to step up, and that Vladimir Putin is the personification of evil. I am going to try to accomplish all of that in less than 10 minutes so we can get on with the vote. Everybody needs to remember how this war started. Just to show you-- you can believe me when I tell you that you know when Putin is lying: when his lips are moving. Let's go back to October, before the invasion in February. He said he was just putting troops together on a training mission--thousands of troops just coincidentally near the Ukrainian border but a training mission. Then it became a military exercise. Now it has become an illegal invasion of a sovereign, democratic nation that has experienced 80,000 dead servicemembers, more than 13,000 dead civilians, 400,000 wounded servicemembers, and 30,000 injured civilians. Let me tell you a little bit about those civilians. They are 16-year- olds who had their legs blown off because Vladimir Putin ordered the launching of dumb bombs into residential areas. He allowed drones to hit children's hospitals that we visited. This is the carnage that the Ukrainian people are experiencing every single day--24/7, 365--since the invasion 3 years ago. Vladimir Putin is a murderer.…”