Political Quotes

“we have always known that the Republicans have an obsession with Secretary Clinton's emails, but their obsession is a trumped up, partisan political crusade. Today we received a new revelation about just how bankrupt the Republicans' campaign against Secretary Clinton truly is. The inspector general of the State Department issued something that is quite important. It is unclassified. He wrote a memo stating that emails received by former Secretary Colin Powell and aides to Secretary Condoleezza Rice may contain classified information. This is the same trumped up allegation for which Republicans are currently trying to railroad Secretary Clinton. As vice chairman Feinstein said last week: ``It has never made sense to me that Secretary Clinton can be held responsible for e-mail exchanges that originated with someone else.'' Yet Republicans would have us believe that these emails posed a grave threat. Secretary Colin Powell said it best. Here is what he said upon reading such emails: ``A normal, air-breathing mammal would look at them and say, `What's the issue?' '' Just like they turned Benghazi into a political issue, Republicans are looking for anything that can be twisted into a partisan political tool--for former Senator and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton--and for obvious reasons. The pursuit of her email records has caused the Republicans to waste millions of dollars of taxpayers' money and, of course, abuse the congressional oversight process.…”