Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, in the years I have served in this body, I have watched Presidents of both parties make a lot of tough foreign policy decisions; many good, many bad, but I cannot think of a foreign policy decision more reckless and short-sighted than this one. Through all the years that I have been working on the Foreign Affairs Committee, frankly, I have never seen a President do something that is as aggravating and that should have never been done as what the President did last week. You know, when the President announced that we were going to leave several months ago, it forced the resignation of the Defense Secretary, Mr. Mattis at the time, who was so upset. That was unprecedented in American history. This is something that is unbelievable and could have been avoided. Mr. Speaker, I now yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the majority leader.”