Political Quotes

“I thank my friend, the Senator from New York, the minority leader, and I agree with him. This is really unfortunate timing. I can't imagine--I always thought that in today's political environment, you always think yesterday's could be the greatest outrage, but the fact that yesterday, the President of the United States said--after all that we have gone through in the last 2\1/2\ years, after all of the evidence of Russian intervention has been out and vetted, after 140 contacts between Russian officials and folks affiliated with the Trump campaign or Trump business operations, you would think there would be a sense of some level of moral obligation, even if we are not backward-looking, to say that on a going-forward basis, we ought to make clear that if any foreign power tries to intervene again in an election, the least we can do is ask for a requirement to report it to law enforcement. (Mr. CRAMER assumed the Chair.) I heard yesterday the President went on and kind of said: Oh, it is no big thing; everybody does it. No, Mr. President, everybody doesn't do it. The Presiding Officer who just left the chair--I have no question in my mind that if a foreign power tried to intervene in his campaign, he would report it to law enforcement. All evidence in the past of attempted foreign intervention--candidates stepped up--it didn't matter which party--and did the right thing and reported it to law enforcement.…”