Political Quotes

“I came to the floor to talk about the visit of Prime Minister Modi of India and to speak about an amendment I have, but listening to the Senator from Washington, I have to express my sense of wonder and amazement at our Democratic colleagues for whom no amount of money, no growth in the size of government is too much. While I am certainly sympathetic to the amendment by the Senator from Arizona which would increase defense spending at a time when there is a greater array and a greater diversity of threats to our country than Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has said he has seen in his 50-year career, the idea that because we want to take care of the No. 1 priority of the Federal Government, which is national security and self-defense, we have to somehow use that to leverage more spending in other areas that are nondefense-related is simply unacceptable, particularly at a time when our national debt is $19 trillion. The other day, I happened to be speaking to a young woman who said: Well, what would you tell me to tell my peers? She must have been--who knows how old she was--in her early twenties. She said: What would you tell me to tell my peers about politics and why they should care and why they should be involved? I told her: Well, if I were you, I would be angry. I would be mad.…”