Political Quotes

“I just listened with interest to the remarks of the majority leader and his accounting of history--his very defensive remarks, based on an attack from, I guess, some journalist. The majority leader, I would say, was liberally using words like ``McCarthy'' and ``McCarthyism'' and ``liar'' and how he proudly stood up to the Soviet Union in the wake of Brezhnev and Chernenko and Andropov. They are fascinating words, but you don't need x-ray vision to notice a few things about the discussion the majority leader launched. First of all, this weekend, the Director of National Security resigned in frustration that his boss, the President of the United States, has chosen to believe Russia instead of his own intelligence officials. One of most embarrassing moments in my lifetime was when the President of the United States stood next to the dictator of Russia and said that he believed Putin and not his own intelligence officials and the consensus of his intelligence officials when it comes to influencing our 2016 elections. So I hear that the majority leader always has an acute sense of history and his place in it. I am hopeful the majority leader, using his knowledge of history, understands the influence Russia continues to have in our country and on our elections and that this body will actually address that instead of denying the obvious. Opioids Mr. President, America is in the middle of a public health crisis.…”