Political Quotes

“I would just point out that Ukraine is not a member of NATO. I know some of my colleagues want to make them that, maybe so that we could already go to war with a country that would inherently involve Article V, or they would be admitted today because they are in a state of war today. However, they are not, so we aren't having NATO allies in bunkers right now hunkered down and having allies call them out. {time} 2030 The surest way to wind up there is to continue to under-invest in our defense, and that is exactly what more than 75 percent of our NATO allies are doing. They said they would invest in their defense and they are not doing it. Do they have no shame? They expect us to carry the load? Are we going to fight and fund their wars? I mean, we did help a lot in World War I. We helped a lot in World War II. There were a lot of people that fought and died, not just Americans, to get there. But America is a great ally, and we are simply asking that they too become great allies. That is all this amendment does. It doesn't cut funding. It doesn't bail on them. It simply says, we expect you to do what you said you would do. We are just calling it out. You are not doing it. Please do it. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.”