Political Quotes

“I want to begin by saying to Senator Hutchison, I think she is performing a valuable service. This debate needs to be undertaken. She and I have had very different views on the Balkans from the very outset. She, along with a majority of my colleagues, told me that bombing would not work in Bosnia and we should not be involved in Bosnia and they asked, 'Why are we getting involved?' They were legitimate, real questions. And she could have turned out to be as right, though I think she and others have proved to be wrong. No one knew then. I could not answer some of those questions then. I could not answer in 1992, when I came back from Bosnia and there was the report about what was happening in death camps, about the support of Milosevic across the Drina, with the VJ involved with the Serbs in Bosnia. I could not prove or convince people that there were massive massacres that had taken place and would be taking place. I could not convince anyone--either NATO or the President initially--that the longer we waited, the more the situation would deteriorate, and the harder it would be to put back together.”