Political Quotes

“The gentleman is absolutely right. I am looking at what else is in the CR: $3 billion for Operation Allies Welcome. You know what that is? That is Afghan settlement. For 20 years, for 20 years this country has bled its treasure of humanity, sending our best and brightest to the front, and, of course, your tax dollars. What did we do at the end? We just walked away and gave all that away. We dishonored those who lost their lives, those who came home irreparably damaged, and gave that country $85 billion of premier military hardware, we gave it to hardened terrorists and we gave them a country to operate out of. You know what you get for that? You know what thanks you get? Here is what you get: You get $3 billion for Operation Allies Welcome because we still have to bring people from Afghanistan because the people that we brought initially weren't vetted. We don't know who they were. They just got on the airplane, and now they are living in your community. We pray to God that you are going to be safe. We pray to God that not one of them is a terrorist. But we already know the answer to that, right? We are living on borrowed time. We already know because we have seen it. This is what my friend is talking about with Article I. The Founders gave us the power. You know what they didn't give us in the body? It comes from within. A little bit of courage. A little bit of courage.…”