Political Quotes

“Madam President, it is an honor to join in this colloquy with my friend from Arizona, though I obviously take no pleasure in it because it is an outcry--a cri de coeur--an outcry of the heart about the slaughter going on in Syria now, once again, with a government killing its own people to maintain its own presence and power. It is an outcry because for more than a year now the rest of the world, including the United States, has offered these victims of the brutal violence of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Damascus essentially words--words of condemnation, words of sympathy. But those words--or the few cell phones we have given those Syrian freedom fighters--don't stand up against Assad's tanks, his guns, and the brutality of his forces. So I would say the answer to the question my friend from Arizona posed--how many more people have to be killed?--obviously, too many people have already been killed. It is time for the United States to show some leadership. Senator McCain and I are not calling for American troops on the ground in Syria. We are not calling for the United States alone to take action. There is a coalition of the willing. If we continue to say we are not going to take action to help the victims of Assad's brutality until and unless we get authorization from the U.N. Security Council, there is never going to be any help to go to these victims in Syria because the Russians and probably the Chinese will veto any U.N. resolution.…”