Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in support of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and against the resolution--well, actually, in favor of the resolution of approval. I must say, in starting, we are at a paradoxical moment. The fears, the haunting specter, a terrible thing, the existential threats posed by a nuclear Iran are all legitimate fears and legitimate haunting specters, regional hegemony to be avoided. But ironically, those concerns and those fears and those outcomes raised by my friends on the other side of the aisle and the opponents of this agreement actually come true and are realized if we do what they want us to do, which is to reject this agreement. The alternative to this agreement is an opaque, unconstrained Iranian nuclear program, Mr. Speaker, hanging like the sword of Damocles over all of our heads. And the security of the United States and Israel and regional partners, who knows? The false hope offered by the critics is let's return to the negotiating table to seek a better deal. A man that I respect, at one of our hearings that Chairman Ed Royce chaired on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, former Senator Joe Lieberman, said just that. I said: How did that work? He said: Well, let's just go back to the partners and Iran and say, we just couldn't sell it; let's start over.…”