Political Quotes

“I appreciate the gentlewoman's courtesy in permitting me to speak on this and bringing us together, and I have enjoyed listening to my colleagues walk us down memory lane. Barbara Lee, Jan Schakowsky, these are painful memories, but we were here when the United States made the single biggest foreign policy blunder in our history, costing hundreds of thousands of lives in the Middle East--not just thousands of Americans--costing trillions of dollars. We are watching every day in America the price being paid by men and women who come back with injuries, both visible and those that aren't: PTSD, missing limbs, lost opportunities, and troubled families. Three days ago, there was a quotation describing what was going on with Boeing's design of the 737 MAX, where one of their engineers said it was designed by clowns and supervised by monkeys. I think that act, sadly, is what we are looking at, the clown act that is going on now, trying to sort out a rationale for another rash act that has, in fact, left us less safe. Now, Donald Trump campaigned tapping into the antiwar sentiment and professed to be against endless wars. He professed to have been against the war in Iraq. Of course, an examination of his record finds out, like most things, he is on both sides of that question. But he has taken a step that puts us in harm's way again. It recalls the Beirut tragedy, where there was the largest loss of life since World War II in a single day, October 23, 1983.…”