Political Quotes

“Mr. President, reserving the right to object, there is bipartisan objection to the request by the majority leader. It is worth our spending a minute or two hearing what Republicans Senators have had to say in the last few hours. John McCain, the senior Senator from Arizona: Is that the definition of insanity, voting on the same bill over and over again? Jim Inhofe: I think three is enough. There is a division within the conference on this. Jeff Flake of Arizona: We can go through the motions, sure, but I don't think we are fooling anybody. Another Republican Senator: I wish we could take no for an answer and figure out the next step. Well, what has happened in the last 30 hours? We knew 30 hours ago about ISIS. We have watched their brutality, killing thousands and thousands of innocent people, going back, I guess, in memory to the days we thought would never exist again: Tamerlane killing thousands and thousands of people those many centuries ago, Genghis Khan killing thousands and thousands of innocent people. ISIS has been doing this, but they have also added some things that we have watched not because we wanted to but because they forced us to: beheadings. Somebody kneels down in front of them, and they cut off their head with a knife. They film that and send it around the world for us to watch. But what happened 30 hours ago? The brutality we thought had reached its pinnacle got worse.…”