Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McKEON. Mr. Speaker, might I inquire how much time we have remaining on both sides? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California has 1 hour and 50 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Washington has 1 hour and 55 minutes remaining. Mr. McKEON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. A lot has been said today on both sides of this issue. As I have listened carefully to all of the arguments, it seems to me that the main argument, as I have heard it, against acting on this amendment at this time is that it doesn't go far enough or we don't know for sure if it would be successful. I have been in this body now for 22 years. I wish that I had the foresight every time we come to this floor to know exactly what is going to happen after we take action, but it seems to me that none of us really has that foresight. We can think about it, we can project, but we really don't know what is going to happen if we take action. Sometimes, we know what is going to happen if we don't take action. I think that is probably what we ought to be thinking a little bit about today. There were some comments made about Iraq and Syria. One thing that I think hasn't been mentioned that I think we know is that we left Iraq precipitously. We can talk about blame. We can place it on President Obama.…”