Political Quotes

“OK. It is the 60th year that we have passed this, and it has passed every year. There were a few moments there where I thought maybe it wasn't going to pass this year and we would set a record. Senator Reed and I don't want to set that kind of record. We want to make sure we get this done. The reason this is important is this is the blueprint. This tells us what we are going to be doing with our troops. I could make an argument that it is really--we are in the most dangerous situation, I think, that we have been in before. I have often talked about the good old days when we had the Cold War with two superpowers. We knew what the Soviet Union had; they knew what we had. Mutually assured destruction meant something at that time. But now it is different in a lot of respects because you have rogue countries out there that have weapons and have abilities to wipe out nations. That is why it is so significant. So, anyway, we suffered through a little bit of a problem back during the Obama administration, during the last 5 years, which would have been from 2010 to 2015. In his budget, he downgraded the military by 25 percent, and that is the same time, during that timeframe, that China increased theirs by 83 percent. So it is a scary world out there, and it is one that, to me, I have no doubt that this is the most important bill that we will pass all year because we have got our kids, and they are out there right now. They are in the trenches, and we have to support them.…”