Political Quotes

“I am so grateful for the questions from my colleague and my friend. I want folks to know, probably the best dinner I had here when I came here was with the Senator from New York, who really gave me a quick rundown on how to get things done in this body. I have watched her work on both sides of the aisle, relentlessly, to get things over the finish line and to help people in our region--from the 9/11 folks, who were our first responders, to get their healthcare; to fight to support the military, to empower the military; but to fight against sexual assault in the military. She is one of these phenomenal people. A lot of the questions we are going to get to, including that question that was obviously painful about national security, is like, hey, one of the strategies of Russia--and we know this--is to attack the elections of other democracies, to try to sow discord, to try to undermine the very voting process, and the Trump administration pulled away a lot of the people from the DOJ and elsewhere when their sole purpose was to fight against foreign election interference. So how can we have a nation where the President is in charge of national security and is not doing things to address the issues that were in your questions? I want to start by reading a couple of constituent letters.…”