Political Quotes

“I rise today to make an analogy. When I was first assigned to a Special Forces team as a young lieutenant, I had already been in the 82nd Airborne Division for a couple years. When I got to the A-Team the team sergeant was an old, grizzled, experienced NCO. My team sergeant had been in Vietnam. He had run the patrols. He had been behind the lines. He had seen his soldiers wounded and killed. That was the man that actually did my training. That is the kind of man you need. To put it in context, if you have seen the movie ``We Were Soldiers,'' the command sergeant major, that is Tim Reitz for me and for the Freedom Caucus. Tim Reitz is the one that knows the rules, but he knows more than the rules. He knows what we need to do to get things done. So my analogy for Tim Reitz is one of utmost respect because just as the NCO corps is the backbone of the United States Army, Tim Reitz was the backbone of the House Freedom Caucus to me.”