Political Quotes

“Madam President, to clarify, I believe the Defense authorization bill will pass this evening. That is not in any doubt. The problem is this isn't just about the process, this isn't just about minority rights in the Senate, but this is about people getting hurt. And the people I am talking about are our Active-Duty military whose pensions have been cut by the vote we cast yesterday passing the budget deal. All we want to do is fix that. There is bipartisan consensus this was a big mistake, and we could pass that, if the majority leader would allow us, today; it would pass through the House, as I said yesterday, like a hot knife through butter. Everyone agrees this was a mistake, and that is what the process is supposed to do, to fix this kind of error before it happens; and now that it has happened, to remedy it through an amendment. But this is exactly what the majority leader is denying us the opportunity to do and why this is so important. I mention again, so it not be forgotten, the 12 Americans who were killed at Fort Hood some 4 years ago by a domestic terrorist attack, along with 30 others whose lives were changed forever when they were shot by MAJ Nidal Hasan, who had become radicalized by the same cleric whom President Obama targeted on his kill list with a drone attack in Yemen, and appropriately so. He was an agent of al-Qaida.…”