Political Quotes

“Last year I stood here on the House floor and I asked the President of the United States to make available to us, to Congress and the American public, the details of what I believe is, and many have seen is, a secret deal that the President has with the Russians concerning the United States missile defense. Everyone is very much aware that the President had an open mic incident where he didn't expect the American public to hear what he was saying when he was meeting in Seoul, South Korea, with then-President Medvedev of Russia, and he said to him that he needed some space from the Russians. He said to him, as we all are familiar with now, ``This is my last election,'' Obama told Medvedev during the two-day nuclear summit. He said, ``After my election, I will have more flexibility.'' You don't have to take my word for it. You can see this on YouTube, where the President offers the issue of missile defense as one that's negotiable with the Russians after he's no longer answering to the American public through the election. What's troubling is that, as we stood on the House floor and demanded the President make public the terms of this secret deal that he was talking about with Medvedev, the President didn't make any of those details available. But, instead, after the election, with the stroke of his pen, abandoned phase IV of his own phased adaptive approach missile defense plan that would have provided missile defense protection for the United States homeland.…”