Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine continues to escalate. Americans who walked by a newsstand on Monday were met with the wrenching picture of a Ukrainian family killed by Russian shelling, a mom and her two children struck down as they attempted to flee along a main evacuation route from Irpin to Kyiv, an evacuation route that Russia shelled. Yesterday, the world saw pictures of the devastation after a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine--maternity hospital--fell victim to a Russian air strike. President Zelenskyy reported that there were children buried under the rubble--children. One newspaper reported: The bombing took place during what was supposed to be a ceasefire in Mariupol so that civilians could evacuate. It marks the fourth time a so-called `humanitarian corridor' out of the city has failed because Russian forces opened fire. ``[T]he fourth time a so-called `humanitarian corridor' out of the city has failed because Russian forces opened fire.'' ``Opened fire'' on civilians, on parents trying to save their children, this is what Russia is doing. The scenes in Ukraine are unreal. They are scenes that we thought had finally been left behind in the dust of European history: devastated cities, apartment buildings with their sides sheared off, the smoking ruins of homes and businesses, a school reduced to rubble, mass graves. In 2 short weeks, Vladimir Putin has wrought an unimaginable amount of devastation.…”