Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record an editorial from the July 21 edition of the Washington Post. I completely agree with this editorial. The metric is not how many long overdue individual sanctions are made. We must instead be focused on our goal: preventing the acquisition of a nuclear weapons capability by the Islamic Republic of Iran. I fear we are spiraling at an accelerating speed to the point when we have but one option left to stop the Islamic Republic of Iran's illegal nuclear weapons ambitions. If that happens, history will judge that we were put into this position by our own failure to avail ourselves of other options while we still had them. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [From the Washington Post, July 21, 2011] Sanctions Aren't Slowing Iran's Nuclear Progress According to a recent story in The Post, the Obama administration is ``quietly toasting'' the success of international sanctions against Iran. The Islamic republic is having increasing difficulty arranging imports, including food, and the central bank is reportedly short of hard currency. Billions of dollars in foreign investment projects have been canceled, and few banks, insurance companies or shipping firms are willing to do business with Tehran. There are also signs of political stress.…”