Political Quotes

“It is frustrating to hear the political games being played, when a piece of legislation isn't really about what it is intended to be about or what the title says that it is. My colleague, whom I have respect for, and have watched him argue cogently on some issues, is actually incorrect on this. Suggesting that because I voted ``no'' on this bill I somehow don't support NATO, it is really, quite frankly, absurd. I remember being in Iraq in 2003 when British SAS soldiers were wounded, and my Tier One task force went in, and we pulled those guys off the battlefield wounded. I took care of them in the back of the helicopter. I am fully supportive of NATO. Quite frankly, it angers me that the suggestion because I voted on a piece of legislation that had a clause in it that didn't make sense to me that I am somehow not supportive of NATO. No one has been more supportive of NATO. Yes, many of us voted ``no'' on that bill, but it was because it created this extra body to discuss democracy when we are at war trying to save a democracy. How about we focus NATO on what is going on in Ukraine and not forming some new discussion group about democracy? So, yeah, several of us voted no. But I assure you, Mr. Speaker, and my colleague from Maryland, that has nothing to do with a lack of support for NATO.…”