Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Jody B. Hice), my good friend. I thank him for bringing this issue to the attention of the Congress and for this Special Order. When I was growing up, Mr. Speaker, I believed that my government would do all it could to stop crime from happening in the community I lived in, including drug use. {time} 1945 I have always been, my whole life, an ardent opponent of drug use. I have never used drugs, but yet I have seen the ravages and the devastation in the community I live in of this. You just knew in your heart that your government--the police, so on and so forth--were stopping those kind of things. Then years later, as I grew up and was privileged to serve in uniform, I ended up going to Iraq. I got a briefing on this new type of weapon that was being used in Iraq called an EFP, an explosively formed penetrator, for which we had very little defense. There were other kinds of IEDs, whether they were used with a cell phone or a pressure plate or whatever, but these things were particularly grave because we didn't have anything to stop them. We all knew, from the briefing, that they were coming from Iran. And, of course, we thought, wearing the uniform, that our government would do everything it could to protect the servicemembers who were in harm's way and to protect our national security.…”