Political Quotes

“like many of my fellow Americans I listened to the President's State of the Union Address 1 week ago, and while there are any number of the President's false or misleading assertions that I could refute, I want to take a minute to highlight just a few. The President began his remarks with a focus on cooperation and compromise, calling for unity among both political parties to work together and break what he described as ``decades of political stalemate.'' The reality is that last Tuesday's address followed the longest shutdown in our government's history--a shutdown that resulted from the President's stubborn refusal to work with Congress--and was delivered by a President who has made a daily practice of making unfounded, personal attacks against Democrats and anyone else who opposes his xenophobic, ill-conceived policies. The President went on to call on Congress to make needed commitments to ``defeat AIDS in America and beyond.'' Who doesn't support that? The problem is that his administration proposed a $1 billion cut in fiscal year 2018 and a $1.2 billion cut in fiscal year 2019 to combat HIV/AIDS around the world. This is typical of this White House. The President makes outlandish claims, whether in ignorance or reckless disregard for the truth, in a transparent attempt to appear to care about solving problems his administration is actually making worse.…”