Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, once again, I respectfully and vehemently disagree with my friend and colleague, the gentleman from California (Mr. Garamendi). I represent the great people of the city of Oak Ridge in Tennessee, the birthplace of the Manhattan Project. The NNSA has a facility there. It is called the Y-12 facility. We are building the uranium processing facility. That became very apparent to me when I was a college freshman correctly arguing against a nuclear freeze, against a room full of liberal, radical, leftist students. I knew I was right then because I knew Ronald Reagan was right. What I didn't know then was that nuclear weapons deteriorate. I thought if you had a nuclear weapon, you could put it on a shelf, and if you needed it, you could go get it. The reality is that nuclear weapons, by their nature, deteriorate and have to be updated. Now, through three administrations--the Obama administration, the Trump administration, and now the Biden administration--I have worked hand in hand with the NNSA, the National Nuclear Security Administration. To do what? To make sure that our current nuclear arsenal, our nuclear deterrent, is strong.…”