Political Quotes

“Mr. President, first of all, I want to thank my colleague. I agree with her comments about how we need to not just pay lipservice to our veterans or the fact that for 70 years, America has used soft power through organizations like USAID in ways that have been incredibly important and have kept our country and the world safer. I thank the Senator for her comments and, frankly, the others who have been on the floor. We have been talking about, I think, unfortunately, the myriad ways the Trump administration is undermining our security and, quite honestly, making Americans less safe. Now, as vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee, I have some additional thoughts to add about the way this administration is endangering our national security with its reckless, sloppy mishandling of classified information, by firing people who keep our country safe, and by abandoning and alienating the very allies whose support is crucial for our security, prosperity, and global influence. Now, let me not go way back in time. Let's just look at what we have learned in just the last 24 hours. Yesterday, we learned that President Trump apparently had a meeting in the Oval Office with a self-described pro-White nationalist, proud Islamophobe, and conspiracy theorist who has called 9/11 an inside job carried out by the U.S. Government. The Presiding Officer is from Pennsylvania, where many of the victims of 9/11 took brave actions and Flight 93 crashed.…”