Political Quotes

“I think it is unprecedented and particularly unprecedented to give that kind of power to a country and a government which, unfortunately, is bent on a process of genocide denial. My own background is that I am a Jewish American. We have said time and again, ``Never forget, never again,'' when it comes to the Holocaust that destroyed over a third of the Jewish people in the world. It has been recognized by scholars of genocide that the last step in a genocide is genocide denial. First is the actual murder and then the cover-up. Because what that does is it does not only kill as the genocide kills, but it kills the memory of those who perpetrated the crime and those who were victims of it. We must prevent this last step of the Armenian genocide. We must say, as to that genocide and as to all genocides, never forget, and never again. Another concern we should have is that genocide denial is not only the last step in the last genocide, it is the first step of the next genocide.”