Political Quotes

“there are a few of us who want to come down and talk a little bit about specific things in our States that are reaching a crisis point by having to participate in ObamaCare. But before doing that I want to make just one comment to make sure it is in the Record and that we can talk about the election that took place over in Afghanistan. We have had quite a time over there. We have lost actually 2,197 of our own troops in Afghanistan, and we have had about ten times that many who have been injured. So it has been a real crisis for a lot of people. For a long period of time things had been going well. I think when the decision was made by this President to pull everything out at a given time things started turning around a little bit. Now they are in the middle of a--in Afghanistan the election took place. I know we are not supposed to say this, and there is no official position--I want to make that clear--by the United States of America, but to me there are two people running against each other. There is a good guy and a bad guy--that holdover from the old administration, whose name is Ashraf Ghani, who is Karzai's chosen one, who is one who would continue to go in a lack of leadership and not take advantage of the opportunities they have right now; then Abdullah Abdullah is the other one. My concern with this--and I expressed this concern on the Senate floor about 3 weeks ago. I said: I know we have deadlines.…”