Political Quotes

“thank you. I have some brief remarks, and I want to thank my friend, the Senator from New Jersey, who will move in a few moments to have this Chamber approve a number of critical nominees for our national security and is going to be, shamefully, blocked. He has been a great fighter not only for these men and women, but on foreign policy in general, one of the great leaders. And his passion for this issue comes from a desire to have us have the greatest strength abroad diplomatically and geopolitically as well. So I cannot thank him enough. Mr. President, of all the mandates of the government, the most important is protecting the American people from threats foreign or domestic. To do so, the President relies on an army of dedicated public servants--our expert Ambassadors, Diplomats, Under Secretaries, and Assistant Secretaries, who play a critical role in our government. But for months, Senate Republicans have gone to great lengths to place pointless holds on over 100 of these nominees. The consequence is scores of empty desks in the State Department and in our Embassies and the Department of the Treasury and other Agencies. These nominees are not controversial. They are routinely confirmed by consent in this Chamber, until a few people decided that they wanted to make a big show of this for whatever reason. No one ever did this before. No one ever did this--maybe one individual nominee here or there, but not all of the nominees.…”