Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman, and I respect all of my colleagues on the tough decisions that we are asked to make today. I believe that America must use our military might any time that our families face an imminent threat. Though ISIS, like a number of terrorist groups around the world, would like to kill more Americans, our military leadership has made it clear that ISIS does not represent such a threat today. It is a regional threat without the capacity to do the harm it would like to do. Rejecting this one amendment does not mean doing nothing about ISIS. The President already has the necessary authority to respond to this savagery when Americans are murdered. Now the President's response, however, has been expanded, and he proposes a full-scale war. This amendment establishes a new objective for this broader war--to end the civil war in Syria that has already consumed almost 200,000 lives. Approving this amendment is the one vote that has been requested to enable this broader war--but without a declaration by the Congress to approve that war and without knowing what commitment those in the region will really make in order to fight this war. I got a communication from a constituent of mine in San Antonio. Her name is Gloria Flores, and she tells me this. She poses some questions that are not being answered today in Washington. ``In my view,'' she says, ``ISIS is just one more extreme group which, if destroyed, will be replaced with another group . . .…”