Political Quotes

“Mr. President, first, I want to say how much I appreciate Senator Sasse's words. I hope that other people in his political party will have the courage he has to stand up and speak out on some of these things. This week, the President of the United States went overseas. Instead of standing up to America's enemies, the President of the United States went out of his way to attack the American free press. As Senator McCain described today's press conference with Russian President Putin: ``The President made a conscious choice to defend a tyrant against the fair questions of a free press and to grant Putin an uncontested platform to spew propaganda and lies to the world.'' Let me repeat that. Senator McCain--once a Republican nominee for President of the United States and one of the most respected Senators of our lifetimes--said: ``The President made a conscious choice to defend a tyrant against the fair questions of a free press and to grant Putin an uncontested platform to spew propaganda and lies to the world.'' We are talking about a man--President Putin--who presides over a regime in which journalists are killed. According to a 2016 PolitiFact article, Russia ranks 180 out of 199 countries for press freedom, behind, not ahead of, Iraq, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and others. This is according to the international watchdog Freedom House. After all, Putin was a KGB agent.…”