Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, in 1893, Katharine Lee Bates wrote ``America the Beautiful.'' In it she wrote: ``God shed His grace on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.'' As the Bible says in Psalm 72:8: He shall have dominion from sea to sea and from the river unto the ends of the Earth. That is aspirational. Chanting ``from the river to the sea'' is not. Chanting ``from the river to the sea'' is calling for the eradication of Israel. I would hardly define that as aspirational. My colleague Representative Rashida Tlaib has parroted the talking points and the message of Hamas, a terrorist organization whose sworn mission is the destruction of Israel and the eradication of the Jewish people. Israel is our strongest ally in the Middle East, a beacon of hope, peace, and liberty in the region. It is the only multicultural, multiethnic, and multireligious democracy. It is not an apartheid state. The oppressor of the Palestinian people is Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Mr. Speaker, if you want Palestinians to be free, then reject Hamas, reject the Palestinian Authority, and demand that Hamas surrender. Calling for a cease-fire that they won't abide to is outrageous. They need to immediately surrender and return the hostages to their families.…”