Political Quotes

“I was disappointed last week when President Trump vetoed the NDAA. This will be the 60th year that we have had the NDAA. The NDAA is the National Defense Authorization Act, and I have said so many times, countless times--on the floor of the House and on the floor of the Senate--that this is the most important bill that we have. Some people don't agree with that, but I do. That is what we are supposed to be doing here. We are supposed to be defending America. And there is a lot to do. We are in the most threatening situation that we have ever been in. I sometimes look back and think of the good old days of the Cold War when you had two superpowers out there. We knew what they had; they knew what we had. Mutual assurance of destruction meant something at that time. If you kill us, we kill you, and everyone is happy. But that is living in the past. But anymore now, with the weaponry that is out there, you can get one outside group that doesn't have any resources at all, and they have the ability to wipe out another country. So it is a real threat that we are up against. I do chair the committee called the Senate Armed Services Committee, and, of course, I have been very active in the National Defense Authorization Act every year since--well, since 1987. It is a long time. So I am proud of the conference report that we had. The NDAA right here--our vote in this Senate was 84 to 13. Wow. You can't find that kind of togetherness in a cause anywhere else.…”