Political Quotes

“Madam President, tomorrow, the Senate will vote on a resolution to terminate the President's emergency declaration--a declaration that undermines our separation of powers in order to fund the President's wall with American taxpayer dollars, despite Candidate Trump's repeated promises that Mexico would pay for it. The resolution could not be any simpler. All it says is this, one single sentence: ``Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, pursuant to section 202 of the National Emergencies Act . . . the national emergency declared by the finding of the President on February 15, 2019, in Proclamation 9844 . . . is hereby terminated.'' That is it in the entirety. There are no political games here. There is no ``gotcha.'' There is no discussion as to whether we need a wall, whether there is a crisis on the southern border. It simply says that this is not an emergency. The vote tomorrow boils down to something very simple for our Republican friends: Do you believe in the Constitution and conservative principles? There are all of these self-proclaimed conservatives. Well, the No. 1 tenet of conservatism is that no one, particularly an Executive, a President, should have too much power. That has been what conservatives have stood for through the centuries, and all of a sudden, because Donald Trump says he wants to declare an emergency, are people going to succumb?…”