Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to address the very serious national security and global stability crisis that we face--preventing a global war in Eastern Europe and in the Middle East. There is now a bipartisan bill that should be brought to a vote to prevent what we all know could happen because it has happened before. It was 1938 when Hitler took Austria. A policy of appeasement was pursued. A year later, Hitler invaded Poland. Appeasement didn't work. In fact, appeasement cost American taxpayers the equivalent of $4 trillion, over 400,000 soldiers killed, and 6 million Jews murdered. We may not get this bipartisan national security and global stability bill because of the dangerous ideology of appeasement. Unless folks are compromised, it is appeasement. Encouraging Putin to do whatever he wants--which are the actual words of the former President, and something that many in this Chamber believe--is shocking. We cannot appease Putin as others did with Hitler. We must push Putin back and get him out of Eastern Europe now. We have to pass this bill, and when the Speaker brings it to the floor, we will. ____________________”