Political Quotes

“You are absolutely right. There is the moral equivalency. If we would just give the criminal, the terrorist, the murderer their money back, it is legitimate. It is theirs. Just disregard the fact that these are killing, murdering terrorists. There is no moral equivalence. You don't give murdering terrorists money, whether it is theirs or anybody else's. You throw them in jail. These people should probably legitimately be in The Hague for crimes against humanity, not getting their money back. Among all the things that frustrate me, that is one of them. The other one, of course, is this whole war powers thing. We have had a year in this Congress, a year of escalation of Iran attacking American targets. In November and December alone, 24 or 25 times, over two dozen times, attacking American targets, but it was never an issue. You know when else it wasn't an issue? The kind gentleman from Texas, it wasn't an issue for 8 years when almost 4,000 people under the Obama administration, terrorists, rightly were killed by drone strikes. You know what came from the other side of the aisle regarding the War Powers Act? Nothing. We agree with President Obama on that. We didn't agree on many things as Republicans with President Obama, but we agreed that eradicating terrorists was a good thing. He did it not in the war zone of Iraq, as approved by this Congress. He did it in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, sovereign nations.…”