Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank the distinguished ranking member. I will be very brief. I thank our ranking member, who could not have been more of a gentleman, more of a leader on this issue, and I cannot thank him enough for his efforts and his staff's. I thank also Senator Menendez, who before was ranking member of the committee and is such a leader on this and has been from day one relative to the sanctions on Iran and bringing them to the table. I would also thank Senator Graham. We began this process in July of last year. And so many others have been involved. Senator Graham obviously helped drive this. So did Senator Kaine, on the Democratic side of the aisle. But we have had so many rocks, such as Jeff Flake and others who have just been steady in helping make this happen. Since there is only a short amount of time, I do want to encourage my colleagues here in the Senate to support this cloture motion. We have been on the floor now for 2 weeks, and I know there have been a lot of process issues that we have dealt with. At the end of the day, without this bill there is no review of what happens relative to Iran. So we worked hard to create a great bipartisan balance.…”