Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, what cruel irony that this rule, dealing, in part, with too much food in America, will deny food to millions in Yemen. In that remote corner of the world, of which most Americans know very little, 85,000 children have already died, and another 12 million people are on starvation's brink. This very day, more children will die of starvation and disease. In an eloquent plea this week, Nick Kristof reports on one of them, an 8-year-old boy who is starving, and his limbs are like sticks. ``He gazes stolidly ahead, tuning out everything,'' as his ``body focuses every calorie simply on keeping [his] organs functioning,'' weighing just over 30 pounds. United Nations officials have warned that ``this could become the worst famine'' in the world in a generation. Mr. Kristof rightly concludes very succinctly. ``The bottom line: Our tax dollars are going to starve children.'' Suffering is rising; American bombs are still falling. When the Saudi coalition attacked a schoolbus, killing 40 little children, scrawled on the remains of the bomb were words that meant ``made in America.'' With today's rule, Trump's enablers here in this House, they tell him to keep it up, keep supporting the murderous Saudi regime for whom they can see no evil and hear no evil, even if there is a recording of the Saudi murder and dismemberment of an American resident available to listen to.…”