Maxine Waters said "I am absolutely surprised and appalled at the energy that they are expending to defend the School of the Americas. I do not know why those who posture themselves as law-and-order policymakers, I do not know why anybody who gets up time and again talking about how tough they are on crime and criminals and human rights violators, would expend so much time and energy defending this U.S. Army School of the Americas. We know the list of violators who have been the graduates of this school. How can we defend them? It is not enough to say, oh, some of them made mistakes, some of them were not right, some of them killed some people. What are Members talking about?" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordSeptember 3, 1997

I am absolutely surprised and appalled at the energy that they are expending to defend the School of the Americas. I do not know why those who posture themselves as law-and-order policymakers, I do not know why anybody who gets up time and again talking about how tough they are on crime and criminals and human rights violators, would expend so much time and energy defending this U.S. Army School of the Americas. We know the list of violators who have been the graduates of this school. How can we defend them? It is not enough to say, oh, some of them made mistakes, some of them were not right, some of them killed some people. What are Members talking about?

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Maxine Waters

Democratic · California

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Editor's note · Context

Addressing human rights violations linked to graduates of the School of the Americas.

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