Political Quotes

“I appreciate the concern that I have heard from the other side of the aisle. The issue, I think, comes down to being in a military uniform should not be a get-out-of-jail-free card. Basically the state of the law is that if you're in a State that has a mandatory minimum and you commit a sexual assault or a rape, you're going to jail. But yet under our law, you could be a member of the military and commit a sexual assault or rape and be free from incarceration even if you commit the assault or rape off base. When we talk about wanting to make certain that we uphold the victims and make certain that the perpetrator is the person who feels insecure and threatened by the system, you can't have a system that threatens the perpetrator when the perpetrator knows that being a man or woman in uniform or by being on base and a member of the military that you're subject to a lower standard in conviction and sentencing. The case we have in Alaska where a member of our military, a member of the Marine Corps, committed a rape and then received no jail time whatsoever--no jail time whatsoever--and if he had been off base or if he been a civilian in Alaska, he would have been subject to a significant mandatory minimum of incarceration. When people ask what's different in the military, this is different.…”