Political Quotes

“I rise in support of Senate Con. Res. 21, which has been offered by the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Gejdenson) to authorize military air operations against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. I am not a hawk, not by any stretch of the imagination, and I have been a peace activist for years. I do not support a full-scale war with Serbia. We are not in a full-scale war, and I hope it can be averted. I believe, however, we should do everything possible to avoid taking any actions that would create a full-scale war. However, I vowed that I would never again remain silent in the face of genocide, and the Albanians in Kosovo are clearly facing genocide. The United States did not act quickly enough to stop the Holocaust during World War II. Throughout the 1930s, persecution against the Jews in Nazi Germany continued to escalate, yet the world community did nothing. Even after the United States entered the war, we did not take any action to shut down the gas chambers. As a result of this genocide, 6 million Jews were murdered. Between April and June of 1994, the Tutsi people of Rwanda were systematically slaughtered. Throughout the months of April and May of that year, the U.S. Government failed to support any action to stop this genocide. The United Nations finally authorized the peacekeeping force, but it was too late to save the lives of 1 million Rwandan people who were slaughtered. Kosovo is not the only place where genocide is happening today.”