Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I want to congratulate the authors and managers of the bill in the House with coming up with a very good bill for our military which will have pay raises and trying to increase our defenses. I don't mind saying that I think we are at war. I know the Presiding Officer believes that. How long does the war last? I don't know. I cannot tell anyone. Am I supposed to know that? Can we not fight it unless we know the date it ends? America, is it part of the battlefield? Tell me. Where do you think they want to hit us the most? What do you think al-Qaida would like to do more than anything else? They would like to come here and destroy the building I am speaking in. The only reason they cannot get here yet is because we are fighting them over there. We are gathering good intelligence. We are taking the war home to them. Our intelligence agencies, our FBI, our military, our CIA are all over the world tracking these crazy people so they cannot get here. So to suggest that I cannot tell when the war ends, therefore we have to turn it into a crime, is dangerous and absurd. Did they know when Germany, Berlin, or Tokyo was going to fall? What happened to the German saboteurs who landed in Long Island during World War II? They were captured by the FBI and turned over to the military. What happened to the American citizens who were helping the German saboteurs? They were held as enemy combatants.…”