Political Quotes

“Madam President, oftentimes when we talk rising crime, we talk about statistics. For example, last year in Milwaukee, there were 194 murders. As I prepared to give remarks yesterday, I got the stat that there were 26 murders already this year. That is an 86-percent increase. Unfortunately, last night there were two more murders, and now it is up to 28. Seventy-three law enforcement officers were intentionally killed in the line of duty last year. That is the highest it has been since 1995. We had three police officers shot in a 2-week period at the end of January. Those are just some of the statistics, and I am sure you have heard a lot more on the floor here today. But one thing I don't think we talk about enough are the victims. I heard President Biden's Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, last week. I guess she was monitoring different TV stations, and she remarked that one commentator was talking about soft-on-crime consequences, and she giggled and said what does that even mean? Well, I will talk about what it means. An excellent article in the Just the News a couple days ago had some heartbreaking examples of those consequences. Last week, we held an event about the open border, about the catch- and-release policies of this administration, record levels of people coming into this country illegally and what that represents from a standpoint of national security and homeland security and crime.…”