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Walter B. Jones: I am not an isolationist, but I am a realist. We are $19.4 trillion in debt.

On the recordSeptember 20, 2016
I am not an isolationist, but I am a realist. We are $19.4 trillion in debt.
Said by
Walter B. Jones
North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Jones emphasizes the need for realism in U.S. foreign policy due to national debt.

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I believe sincerely that that is the biggest threat to our national security, is the growing debt.

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I have long thought, maybe it is because I was raised in eastern North Carolina, that if you owe someone money and you can't pay them back, they just don't have the same respect for you.

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I just get incensed by the waste of money in Afghanistan.

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