Political Quotes

“Mr. President, yesterday, in an interview with FOX News, Speaker Mike Johnson said that I ``was parroting the talking points of Hamas'' and that I and others ``stand with Hamas and the Ayatollah.'' Well, that, of course, is an absolute lie. As I have said many times, I believe that Hamas is a terrorist organization that committed an atrocious act when it began this war by attacking Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 innocent men, women, and children, and taking more than 200 hostages, many of whom are still being held in captivity today. Further, as I have said on numerous occasions, I think that the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, is a war criminal and should be arrested. Now, I am not quite sure those are the talking points that Hamas uses. But what the FOX interview did get right is that I believe it is a very sad day for our country that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been invited by leaders from both political parties to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress. Israel, of course, had the right to defend itself against the horrific Hamas terrorist attack of October 7, but it did not--and it does not--have the right to go to war against the entire Palestinian people. Two days after the war began, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said: I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.…”