Political Quotes

“I thank the Senator from Arizona and all of my colleagues working on what is a very difficult subject matter. When 25 to 1 is the outcome, that is pretty good. I like Senator Reid. This goes back to the White House. This is President Obama's team. This is not Harry Reid. This is not the Senate holding up this bill, it is the White House holding up this bill. They have an irrational view of what we need to be doing with detainees. They have lost the argument--and I tried to help--to close Guantanamo Bay. It is not going to close. We are not going to move those prisoners inside the United States. The Congress has said no. The American people have said no. The reason they lost that argument is after working with the White House for about a year and a half to try to find a national security centric detainee policy that would assure the American people we are not going to let these people roam around the world and treat them as common criminals, they could never pull the trigger on the hard stuff. We are here because the White House cannot tell the ACLU no. There are 48 people at Guantanamo Bay being held under the law of war, who will never see a courtroom, military or civilian courtroom, and that is part of military law. You don't have to let an enemy prisoner go. Most enemy prisoners are never prosecuted. They are held at Guantanamo Bay under the law of war. An Executive order issued by the Obama administration gives them an annual review.…”