Political Quotes

Where will this go next? Will the President deploy our troops to protect Iranian protesters? To enforce the fragile ceasefire in Gaza? To battle terrorists in Nigeria? To seize Greenland or the Panama Canal? To suppress Americans…

If that reporting is true, it's a clear violation of the DoD's own laws of war, as well as international laws about the way you treat people who are in that circumstance.

Frankly, I viewed the situation last weekend as we had no path, none, to a health care fix until we reopened government.

There was no guarantee that waiting would get us a better result, but there was a guarantee that waiting would impose suffering on more everyday people.