Political Quotes

“I want to say just a brief word on another subject. Last week marked another horrible anniversary, the 2-year anniversary since the terrorist group Boko Haram invaded a school in Nigeria and took away 300 little girls. They were girls. They were not young women. They were little girls. The world watched as parents of the girls pleaded for help. People all over the world, including First Lady Michelle Obama, rallied behind the campaign ``Bring Back Our Girls.'' Despite the global outcry, most of these girls--the vast majority of these girls--are still missing 2 years later. But here is the horrible part about this--the shocking fate of some of these girls. It has been a couple of years. They are older--teenagers. Boko Haram is weaponizing them, turning these little girls--they are now not so little--into suicide bombers. According to the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund, or UNICEF, in the 4 countries where Boko Haram operates, the number of children used in bombing attacks has sharply increased from 4 in 2014 to 44 last year. That record will be broken this year. Nearly one out of every five bombers where Boko Haram is active is a child. Seventy-five percent of the child bombers are girls. As a father and grandfather of 19 children, I am sickened by what has happened to those schoolgirls. Although 2 years has passed since the abduction, the world must not forget the evil of this organization.…”