Political Quotes

“I want to thank the chairman and the ranking member for their leadership on this. This clearly is a big issue pressing the country, and I just wanted to rise in support of what is happening here today; of taking a firmer stance on Russia, Iran, and North Korea; trying to stabilize the peninsula; trying to take care of the funding that is coming out of Iran to all of these terrorist groups across the country and across the world. What is happening with these sanctions here in the targeting of Russian gas pipelines--their number one export--I think is entirely appropriate. The Nord Stream 2, which carries gas from Russia through the Baltics to Germany--and I know Germany isn't happy about it, but this is something that we have to do. The point I want to make is that we have to address this issue in a comprehensive way. We must continue to focus on how we get our gas here in the United States, our natural gas to Europe, to our allies, so they are not so dependent on Russia. We have got to have the sanctions, but we also have got to be shipping liquid natural gas to some of these allies of ours so they are not so dependent on the Russians, which is part and parcel of this entire approach.”