Political Quotes

“I have spoken throughout these last several days about how the Nord Stream 2 pipeline--the Biden-Putin pipeline-- runs counter to everything that the Biden administration professes to stand for, and, indeed, what much of the Democratic Party has been insisting for the last half decade are the most important issues of the country. We, of course, spent 4 years, during the Trump Presidency, listening to Democrats say, ``Russia, Russia, Russia,'' over and over and over again. It was a newfound discovery. Some of us are old enough to remember Barack Obama turning to Mitt Romney in the 2012 Presidential election when Mitt Romney was advocating for strength in dealing with Russia and for taking on Putin, and some of us remember Obama looking at Mitt Romney and saying: [Mitt], the 1980s called. They want their foreign policy back. That was in 2012, when the Democrats thought it was passe to stand up to Russia. Then 2016 happened, and Donald Trump was elected President. Suddenly, the Democratic Party got religion. Suddenly, Russia was bad. Now, I thought Russia was bad before. I thought Russia was bad when Trump was President. And I think Russia is bad now. I don't like dictatorial thugs like Vladimir Putin, who is a KGB thug. But, interestingly, for our friends on the Democratic side of the aisle, their outrage against Russia is situational. It applies only in the situation that a Republican is in the White House.…”