Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chair, one question that I think remains unanswered to my colleagues on the other side: Are you willing to go and tell the family members of those five hostages that are now home that they should still be in that prison? Are you willing to tell them that we should not have worked out a deal with the $6 billion frozen for humanitarian concern and that we should renege on the deal and they should go back to prison? The one thing that is missing is that we got these hostages home, and that can't be held over our heads by Iran anymore. I don't hear an answer to that. What do you say to those families? We have talked to families who have loved ones that are hostages. What do you say to them? You should still be there? We should not have made the deal? Is that what you are saying? I think that what I am hearing is that this deal should not have been made and those American hostages should still be sitting in that Iranian prison? I ask my colleagues on the other side: What do you say to those five families? Do we renege on the deal? Do you tell them they should not be home, so we should not have made the deal? We have hostages before us all the time. What do you say to them? I know what I am going to say to them. I am glad their family members are home and I am glad Joe Biden made the deal to get them home. He is not threatening and not using any U.S. dollars.…”