Political Quotes

“I first will open up by congratulating myself because 20 years ago about an hour from now, my lovely bride said ``yes,'' and she has stuck with me for 20 years. So a hearty congratulations that my wife would put up with me for these 20 years, but I am deeply honored to count her as my lovely bride still to this day, so happy anniversary back in Texas. Mr. Chair, I am offering an amendment here that would prohibit any of the funding in this National Defense Authorization Act from being used to carry out President Biden's executive orders on climate change. Our military should be focused, very simply, on its mission as a military, not social engineering. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle like to just dismiss this as some sort of political agenda. This is a foolish thing for us to come down and say. Our military ought to be focused very specifically on ensuring they have got the tools necessary to carry out their job, not advancing a radical agenda that is actually undermining our national security and undermining the readiness of our men and women in uniform because that is what is happening. That is the truth. In 2021, the Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby refused to say that China was a bigger national security threat to the United States than climate change. He called them ``equally important.'' Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said that climate change is an existential threat to our Nation's security.…”