Political Quotes

“Mr. President, on May 25, Robert Kagan, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, wrote a column in the Washington Post explaining that Russia's recent agreement to tighten sanctions on Iran is not as significant as the Obama administration has claimed. Dr. Kagan wrote that the Obama administration paid a high price to get Russia to agree to ``another hollow U.N. Security Council resolution'' and that the Russians ``sometimes used to say and do more'' during the Bush administration. It is unclear to me what the administration can point to as the fruits of the Russia reset, at least as far as the United States is concerned. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have Dr. Kagan's column printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record as follows: [From the Washington Post, May 25, 2010] A Hollow `Reset' With Russia (By Robert Kagan) It took months of hard negotiating, but finally the administration got Russia to agree to a resolution tightening sanctions on Iran. The United States had to drop tougher measures it wanted to impose, of course, to win approval. Nevertheless, senior Russian officials were making the kinds of strong statements about Iran's nuclear program that they had long refused to make. Iran ``must cease enrichment,'' declared Russia's ambassador to the United Nations.…”