Political Quotes

“I thank my friend. I also congratulate the ranking member, Mr. Engel, and the chairman, Mr. Royce, for their bipartisan leadership on this critical, critical resolution. Mr. Speaker, apparently, once a KGB agent, always a KGB agent. Mr. Putin seems to have learned nothing from history other than that there is power at the end of the barrel of a gun. To cite the fact that there are Russian speakers in Crimea as a rationale for one of the most audacious power grabs of the 21st century--in Europe, no less--forgets history. Let us not forget that Crimea was settled by Stalin when he expelled and executed the native Tatars, and this recent so-called referendum in Crimea was also done at the end of the barrel of a gun. Russian interests were never threatened in the Crimea after the revolution in Kiev. The new government in Kiev never abrogated the treaty that allowed Russia naval privileges through 2042. The Ukrainians didn't occupy military stations in Crimea and around the region. It was the other way around. For the United States and its allies to allow this naked aggression to go unaddressed would be truly an abrogation of our moral responsibility and would be to turn our backs on the very lessons we should have learned from the 20th century's tragic history. Mr. Speaker, we need to stop talking about the he-better-not-go- further argument. I am stuck at Crimea, and I hope my colleagues are, too. It is wrong.…”