Political Quotes

“I commend our distinguished majority leader for his very heartfelt remarks. We were together last night at the meeting with the President. It was a somber meeting. But, clearly, the President is a man at peace with himself and has inner confidence. He has carefully gone about the decisionmaking to arrive at the decision he made last night and such decisions as he may make here in the ensuing hours and days to come. But most especially, in the minds of all of us last night were the men and women of the Armed Forces and their families. The distinguished leader has spoken most eloquently about them. Because, in the end, together with a large group of civilians who are employed in the various agencies and Departments of our Government, they must bear the risk, the brunt of such force as may be used against them. So I am privileged to stand here with my distinguished leader today. I, too, am concerned about the remarks of some of our colleagues. I found some of those remarks to be, in my judgment, a disbelief. I could not believe they were said.”