Political Quotes

“Madam President, I will wrap up in the next couple of minutes. He is not alone in this considered view. Listen to the bipartisan wisdom calling on the Senate to ratify this treaty: former Secretaries of State George Shultz, James Baker, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, and Warren Christopher; former Defense Secretaries James Schlesinger, William Cohen, William Perry, Frank Carlucci, and Harold Brown; former National Security Advisers Brent Scowcroft, Stephen Hadley, and Sandy Berger. Patriots all, committed public servants who take it as an article of faith that partisanship ends at our water's edge, as do most Coloradans and most Americans. When it comes to New START, I believe the Senate will as well. President Reagan began negotiating the first START treaty with the Soviet Union in 1982--right in the middle of the Cold War. Even today, all these years later, we remember Reagan's brilliant phrase ``trust but verify.'' Many believed the Cold War would never end. So much has changed since the fall of the Soviet Union: the rise of global terrorism, the growing threat of Iran, the integration of our global economy, and the realization that when one economy falls, all are in danger. As you know, I have just finished a long and tough campaign, and I can tell you that Coloradans are patriots before they are partisans. They are parents before they are Republicans and Democrats. And they are neighbors before they are foes.…”