Political Quotes

“now on the Chinese surveillance balloon, I strongly--very strongly--condemn President Xi's brazen incursion into American airspace with the Chinese surveillance balloon, and I commend President Biden for being calm, calculated, and effective in taking down the balloon over water to ensure the safety of Americans on the ground and to ensure we maximize our intelligence gains as we examine this balloon, which is far less likely to burn and crash into a million pieces in water than over land. Instead of criticizing China, I was shocked to hear MAGA Republicans--before they even knew what was happening, before they even knew the whole story--direct their criticism toward the President, saying that we should have shot down the balloon the moment we saw it. So it is clear that the MAGA Republican criticism was at best premature and at worst political. This is one area where we don't need politics. We need Democrats and Republicans to come together to condemn China and be a unified front against the CCP. President Biden and his team did the right thing. They waited and took down the balloon carefully, precisely, and with what both the military and intelligence experts urged them to do. Had the President not gone along with what the military said, I can imagine that some of these same Republicans, so highly political in their criticism, would have then criticized the President for not listening to the military leaders.…”