Political Quotes

“I urge my colleagues to reject this amendment, with all due respect to its authors. This amendment...prohibits certain types of foreign assistance to any country which has consistently voted against the United States at the U.N. General Assembly during the most recent session of the General Assembly. There is a certain amount of appeal to this amendment at first blush. We all know how we feel as legislators when we offer amendments or bills and there are certain Members who consistently vote against our ideas. We become angry from time to time. We do not understand why they vote against us consistently, but we get angry about it. I am certain that many Americans feel the same way when countries consistently vote against the United States at the United Nations, and so the temptation to cut off foreign aid for those countries is strong. Having said that, I urge my colleagues to think a little further about the implications of this amendment, were it to be adopted.”