Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Let me thank the gentleman from California and congratulate him on his new distinguished post on the Rules Committee. My good friend who I have seen quite frequently over the years at the Rules Committee and I have known of his consistent concern with the rule of law and truly appreciate his comments today as it relates to the rule of law. I would like my comments to be strictly on that question and really the American people of whom each and every one of us come here to represent. I don't want to recount in detail, but I do want to make mention that we know that the Intelligence Committee in January 2017 concluded--and that is the intelligence community concluded--in a report that Russian President Putin ordered and influenced the campaign of 2016 on the Presidential election. We all know recently there were attempts to influence the 2018 election. We won't dwell on that. We won't dwell on the fact that there are discussions and review in the special counsel's work dealing with collusion or the questions dealing with the campaign of the present President and Russia. I believe that the real point of this is to answer the questions of the American people.…”