Political Quotes

“First, Mr. President, let me thank my colleague, my neighbor from New Jersey, for the excellent job he does in just about anything he does but particularly today as ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee. His leadership is invaluable to this country so I thank him for it. Mr. President, President Trump is on his way to attend the annual summit of NATO leaders in Brussels. The President should use the occasion to reinforce and build up the transatlantic alliance rather than tear it down. Since its founding nearly 70 years ago, NATO has become the most powerful and successful security partnership ever created. The first half of the 20th century was marked by unprecedented human suffering-- depression, war, and genocide. After World War II, in the face of Soviet aggression and expansion, NATO showed the world a different way. Working together with other international institutions, NATO established the political and economic rules of the road that have promoted our national security and our mutual prosperity. This institution now finds itself under incredible and completely unnecessary strain from Russia's interference in democracies across Europe and including the United States, from China's rapacious economic aggression and geopolitical provocations, from the evolving threat of terrorism, and, shockingly, from within.…”