Political Quotes

“Mr. President, this will take a little bit of time. Do you want to speak, sir? OK. So I want to explain sort of where we started and where we are at. Those of us old enough to remember 2001, that was a very bad day for America, and it will stick with me forever. I remember being here, during the attack, in Washington and asking myself: What can I do to make sure this never happens again? We did some things, made some mistakes, did some things right, but I will remind you at the end of this discussion that before the attack, the lights were blinking. When the Taliban took over in Afghanistan and started killing women in soccer stadiums for sport and blowing up Buddhist statues, to think that wouldn't affect us was pretty naive. So there is sort of a debate in my party, to be honest with you, about America First, what does that mean, and isolationism. Isolationism sounds good; doesn't work, never has, never will. When people are willing to do horrible things to others in the name of religion or a master race, to think that they will leave you alone is just really very naive. So when Hitler wanted to kill all the Jews because they were an inferior race, for a long time America sat on the sidelines. Voices like Lindbergh and others saying: This is not our fight, no more foreign wars. Well, you wind up allowing the guy to get stronger. You could probably have stopped him dozens of times, but nobody wanted to get involved because of the aftermath of World War I.…”