Political Quotes

“I want to spend the next several minutes commenting on a matter that I regard, as majority leader of this body, to be one that is very serious. As is the case with a number of my colleagues, in fact, most of the U.S. Senators, we have been given the opportunity to reflect on the publication of a very disturbing internal memorandum, a memorandum that lays out a blatant, partisan strategy to use the Senate Intelligence Committee to politically wound the President of the United States. That is unacceptable. There is really no other way to read this memo. I am deeply disappointed that anyone--that anyone--would have a plan to so politicize the Intelligence Committee of the U.S. Senate, to render it incapable of meeting its responsibilities to this institution, to the U.S. Senate, and, indeed, to the American people. Moreover--I had hesitated to come to the floor to address this directly, but now is the time to do that--the response by those behind this memo has been miserably inadequate, has been disappointing, and has been disturbing. We are at a time of peril in our Nation's history.”