Liz Saville Roberts: “As Senator Cleland stated, our objective is to try to achieve greater attention, focus, and mutual understanding in this…”

“As Senator Cleland stated, our objective is to try to achieve greater attention, focus, and mutual understanding in this body on America's global role and our vital national security interests and, if possible, begin a process of building a bipartisan consensus on what America's role should be in today's ever-changing, unsafe, and very unpredictable world. At the outset, I share Senator Cleland's sense of personal limitation in addressing this topic. As he has said, even the finest minds and most expert American foreign policymakers have had considerable difficulty in defining both what role the United States should play in the so-called 'New World Disorder' or reaching a consensus on what criteria to use in defining our vital national interests. Now having said that, I do not know of another Senator better suited to this effort than Max Cleland. He brings to this exchange of ideas an outstanding record of public service, of personal sacrifice, and of courage and commitment.”