Political Quotes

“the Senate has just expressed its will on this issue. My colleagues, Senator Roberts, Senator Hagel, Senator Warner, Senator Grams, and Senator Dorgan and I offered the amendment and, in fact, included language by Senator Roberts which very specifically allows the President to retain or impose any of the above sanctions if he determines such sanctions to be in the national interest of the United States. Our underlying amendment only deals with unilateral economic sanctions. On any nation where there are multilateral sanctions, such as Libya and Iraq, this amendment would not apply. It is only in those countries where there are unilateral sanctions being imposed. Now, it should come as no great surprise to my colleagues that the nations on whom we impose unilateral sanctions are the very nations that my colleague from New Jersey would now like to exempt. What we have been suggesting here this evening is that this great Nation, as my colleague from Nebraska, Senator Hagel, so eloquently said--this great Nation, with its great economic and military power, we ought to be able to take food and medicine out of the arsenal of sanctions we use for the very economic elite and political elite of these terrorist countries. They do not suffer for lack of food. They do not suffer for lack of medicine.”