Political Quotes

“Mr. President, while he is still on the floor, I want to thank the Senator from New Jersey for his remarks. He is clearly one of the institution's experts on Cuba and the Castro regime, and I think we need to pay attention to what he is saying. Unfortunately, we seem to be dealing with other countries and other regimes as we hope they will be, not as they are in reality. That was an important set of remarks, so I thank the Senator. Mr. President, yesterday the United States Senate voted to advance the National Defense Authorization Act--what we call the NDAA. I worry sometimes we talk in Senate-speak, and we don't actually communicate what legislation is, so I want to talk a little about what this defense--or national security--legislation is and why it is so important that it passes. After passing both the House and the Senate earlier this summer, colleagues worked in a conference committee led by Mac Thornberry from Texas, chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services, and Senator John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. I know they had a tough job in reconciling those two different versions of the legislation, but now they have come forward with strong bipartisan legislation that supports our military and our families. My dad served for 31 years in the United States Air Force. He flew B- 17s in World War II in the Army Air Corps.…”