Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, this amendment would reduce the salary of Victoria Nuland to $1. She is currently the Acting U.S. Deputy Secretary of State and the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. Presidents have come and gone. Victoria Nuland remains at the State Department. She last served in four administrations as a pillar of the State Department. Normally, such a long period of service would be marked with gratitude, so why propose to effectively remove her? President Eisenhower cautioned us about people like Victoria Nuland who would put their own interest at odds with America's interests. We have come to call them endless wars or an ``America Last'' foreign policy, but Eisenhower called it the ``military-industrial complex.'' She is exhibit A on how America could actually get in fewer wars if we cleaned house at the State Department and had a more focused foreign policy. Officially, the State Department is supposed to promote America's interests. If anyone at the State Department has represented the neoconservative consensus that has left America less free, less safe, and more burdened by debt over this last generation, it is Secretary Nuland. She hangs the American people out to dry while escalating tensions and pushing through regime change everywhere she can find an opportunity. From 2003 to 2005, Nuland served as the principal deputy foreign policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney.…”