Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, this amendment basically appoints a Special Envoy to Iran to try and talk the Islamic leaders out of nuclear weapons and out of their nuclear weapons program. {time} 0040 If talk and negotiations could de-nuclearize Iran, we wouldn't have to worry about them anymore. But the reality is you can't take the crazy out of radical Islamic fundamentalists, which are the people that run Iran. And this amendment does, contrary to what the gentlelady from California says, this amendment does, in fact, take the military option off the table because it would prevent the President from taking action, even if the U.S. were directly threatened and immediately threatened unless Congress authorized it first. The President would have to call this body back into session, from wherever we were at, and then ask us for permission, on C SPAN, to go ahead and act against an immediate Iranian threat. This amendment does not acknowledge the six U.N. Security Council resolutions to address Iran's nuclear program. It does not acknowledge that France, Germany, and the U.K. offered Iran several proposals to resolve nuclear issues during negotiations in 2004 and 2005. It does not acknowledge that the diplomatic initiatives to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue have produced absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing.…”