Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I am here to speak about Mr. Price, but I want to respond to my friend the Senator from Nebraska. I appreciate very much the independence the Senator has shown in his tenure in the Senate. My hope would be that his comments about civics, his comments about our three branches of government--I hope we will take that speech and actually send it down to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue because I concur with him. I concur with him about the basic civics lessons he laid out. I concur with him about three equal branches of government. I concur with him about the fact that I look forward to hearing from Judge Gorsuch and having my chance to view him. But I would also think that in any kind of objective analysis of what our country is going through right now, we have currently a President of the United States who--I have real questions whether he has read that document, the Constitution, whether he understands the basic tenets of three coequal branches. We saw his activities during a campaign where he called out a judge because of his ethnic heritage and somehow impugned that judge's independence. At some point, he walked that back, and perhaps those of us who were kind of scratching our heads thought, well, that is just during the campaign, and candidates do strange things during the campaign. Then we saw the President get elected, and we saw throughout a transition period decrees by twitter that are, again, unprecedented in modern activity.…”