Political Quotes

“Mr. President, 2 weeks ago I came to the Senate floor to discuss the numerous foreign policy failures of the Obama administration. While there has been no shortage of examples over the past 7 years, I wish to revisit one particular subject from the litany of this administration's errors--the very serious national security threat that President Obama once called a JV team. Last November, President Obama participated in an interview with the host of ``Good Morning America,'' George Stephanopoulos, who asked him the following question: ``But ISIS is gaining strength, aren't they?'' The President's reply: Well, no. I don't think they're gaining strength. What is true is that from the start, our goal has been first to contain, and we have contained them. Just 1 day later--1 day later--ISIS gunmen and suicide bombers attacked Paris and killed 130 people. Less than a month after that, 2 ISIS-inspired terrorists killed 14 people in the first homegrown ISIS attack on American soil. Now there is Orlando, the worst terrorist attack on America's homeland security since 9/11--so much for ``we have contained them.'' Unfortunately, despite these attacks, President Obama continues to paint an unrealistically rosy picture of our success against ISIS. Emerging from a meeting last week, the President declared that ``we are making significant progress'' in the fight against ISIS. He went on to say, ``ISIL's ranks are shrinking. . . .…”