Political Quotes

“Madam President, as I have been saying, it has been so difficult to get people to realize what we are facing from the Chinese Communist Party. They are an adversary, and seeing the evidence of genocide in Xinjiang didn't seem to be enough to persuade people. Then you have the reports that Beijing manipulated multiple international organizations when it comes to the origins of the COVID- 19 virus. That wasn't enough. Hearing the Chinese officials threaten our pharmaceutical and medical supply chains in the midst of a pandemic--that didn't seem to be enough. Watching in horror as the Chinese Communist Party threatened the Hong Kong freedom fighters and as they have threatened our friends in Taiwan--that didn't seem to raise the attention for them that this is not our friend. They are not a competitor. They are an adversary. We have seen these effects of the Belt and Road Initiative on the global balance of power. They still haven't said: We have to deal with China. Not even Beijing going out here and pushing their nuclear power has seemed to push some of our colleagues across the aisle, as they have not paid attention to what is happening with our nuclear deterrent capabilities and what China is doing. So it leads a lot of Tennesseans that I talk to say: What is it going to take for Joe Biden and his administration to take these global threats seriously? If you look at what is going on in China and that doesn't do it, are you looking at Iran?…”