Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time to close debate on this measure. I am glad we had a spirited debate on the issues. As always, I am grateful to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. McCaul), my friend, the ranking member, for his collegiality. We are generally bipartisan on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and when we do disagree, we do so on the issues and not on the politics and the personalities. I have enormous respect for Mr. Mast, which he knows about, but I would say that this, today, is not a referendum on Iran. I agree with everything that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have said about Iran: its bad intention, its bad behavior. I agree. But, again, I say, as I said before, it doesn't mean we give another country, being an ally or not, a blank check to do whatever it pleases. And in this particular case, the conduct of the war in Yemen is something that we cannot just turn our heads away and say: ``Oh, well, this is the war and the Iranians are bad, so, therefore, we are going to look the other way.'' I think if we are talking about American weapons, we can demand better.…”