Political Quotes

“I want my colleagues to know and the American people to know that this was accomplished not merely because of the hard, industrious, and imaginative efforts of Ambassador Holbrooke, but this was accomplished primarily because of the Senator from North Carolina. He has been resolute in his commitment to saving the American taxpayers' money. He has been resolute in his commitment to preventing waste, and he has been forthright in his assertion that when U.S. interests are at stake, we should speak up. That is precisely what he did here with regard to the United Nations. As a consequence of his insistence, although this is called Helms-Biden--and I am proud to be a cosponsor of it and am proud to have worked all along with the Senator from North Carolina--but it was his insistence that we condition our commitment to pay what we agree were the arrears, not what the U.N. asserted was the amount of the arrears, upon some serious and genuine reform at the United Nations.”