Political Quotes

“I want to echo what Senator Collins just suggested. How do you begin to turn this debacle around? You admit you have got a problem. It is pretty hard to quit drinking if you don't admit you have got a drinking problem. So what she is suggesting is that we acknowledge the obvious, that this bill, on the defense side, is inadequate to the threats we face, that a bill that funds the Pentagon below inflation at a time of great threat is not fully funding. She is trying to get us to wake up to the reality that if we don't speak about defeating Putin now, then the Ukrainians, who are on the offense, will be undercut. I will never let this happen again, as long as I am here, to let people negotiate behind closed doors and not tell me what they are doing on defense. I blame myself for not being more involved and more active, because in my wildest dreams I never believed that the Republican Party would take the Biden budget that they have attacked for a year and celebrate it as fully funding. I know who I am dealing with now. Here is what Reagan told the Russians: Trust but verify. I will never, ever trust again, because you have got an ``R'' behind your name, that you are going to be the party of Ronald Reagan. You have to prove that to me. So, as we go forward, the game will change. Why is she asking for this to be done? If we don't commit to an orderly appropriations process, it gets worse for the Defense Department.…”