Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from Kentucky for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this bipartisan legislation sponsored by my friend and colleague, Mr. Barr from Kentucky. This legislation sends a clear message to the rest of the world: you can either do business with the United States and the free world or you can do business with the brutal dictatorship of Kim Jong-un and the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea. You cannot deal with both. Mr. Speaker, the gravest threat facing our Nation today is North Korea, the world's worst perpetrator of human rights. Kim's contempt for human life animates both his human rights record and his nuclear ambitions. Just this past June, we learned how Kim's regime tortured University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier. His parents, Cindy and Fred, went public with the details of their son's suffering in September during an interview with CNN. These are just a few of the details that Fred and Cindy shared in that interview: ``Halfway up the stairs, we hear this loud, guttural howling, inhuman sound.'' They found him strapped to a stretcher. He has a shaved head. His eyes are darting around. He is blind, he is deaf, he is on a feeding tube. His bottom teeth looked like they had been taken with a pair of pliers and rearranged. His mother, Cindy, described how his hands and legs were totally deformed.…”