Political Quotes

“I received a call a few days ago from a soldier returning after 14 months in Iraq. He said, ``Congressman, your Ford Explorer that you drive around is better armored than the Humvee that I drove around Iraq.'' The fact is so many of the wounds and the deaths are occurring because of these devices that are planted in the roadways, and our soldiers are driving over them, and they are exploding, and there is nothing in that vehicle to protect them. These up-armored Humvees have steel plating in the bottom and on the sides. They can even reinforce the windshield so that the windshield itself is impenetrable. It can be done. The President said to our soldiers, we will provide you what you need, but the President is not providing our soldiers what they need. Regardless of what people feel about this war, Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, the one thing we should be able to agree upon is if we are going to send our soldiers into harm's way, we provide them with every bit of equipment that they may need to be safe.”