Political Quotes

“one of the things that I think we have to continue to reiterate during today's debate is that this debate is not about the people of North Korea. It is about the dictator of the regime, the forgotten maniac, Kim Jung Un, and his reign of terror in North Korea, not only with the 200,000 people who are subject to imprisonment in political camps--200,000 men, women, and children who have been tortured and maimed--but it is about his leadership that seems to go along with him, a leadership that would aid and abet in the torture and maiming of innocent people. I think perhaps this chart, this picture, this satellite image of the Korean Peninsula, best illustrates what the people of North Korea are subjected to each and every day. You can see North Korea right here, a big vast, empty space at night, very little light, maybe Pyongyang, the brightest light point compared to Seoul, compared to South Korea, compared to their neighbors in the south, their family members in the south because they have been deprived of an economy, because they have been deprived of an opportunity, and because the people of North Korea have been deprived of the freedoms their South Korean neighbors have enjoyed. Standing on the DMZ--and I know the Presiding Officer has been there as well--standing on the DMZ, you can see the differences between the development of North Korea and South Korean. In just a few moments--I notice my colleague from Michigan is here and is scheduled to speak.…”