Political Quotes

“That is right, the Model T. We said as a Nation, never again will this happen to our troops. That is why the Congress gave the administration carte blanche. We said we would give them the money they needed, we would give them the resources, but they needed to give us a system that is highly effective, that will protect our kids wherever they are in the world. What has been the administration's response? They now are projecting that they want to wait until 15 years after those kids were killed to deploy the first battery of that highly effective system that is now called THAAD, theater high altitude area defense system. We say that is unacceptable. We provide the full funding for THAAD, but we go beyond that. We fund the Navy's lower tier program, because we believe, as the scientists have told us, that the best way to protect our troops and our allies and our people from the threat of missile proliferation, that the best way to do it is to have a layered approach. The first layer is Navy lower tier, which provides protection against cruise missiles. Cruise missiles are now being built by over 20 nations. Over 75 nations in the world now have cruise missiles. Pakistan, India, Iraq, Iran, every country we can think of has cruise missiles that they can fire. We are putting the funding in well above what the President asked for, but what the Navy requested to implement Navy lower tier as soon as possible.”