Political Quotes

“I rise to cosponsor an amendment that codifies the so-called outer wall of sanctions on the government of Serbia-Montenegro. Mr. President, as we know, for the last decade Slobodan Milosevic has pursued his mad dream of a Greater Serbia. The result has been hundreds of thousands dead, millions made homeless, and centuries-old Serbian culture eradicated from sections of the former Yugoslavia. And Milosevic is continuing his murderous policies in Kosovo, while playing games with us in Bosnia and frustrating democratic reforms in Serbia. The amendment that Senator Smith, Senator D'Amato, Senator Johnson, and I are proposing codifies five categories of sanctions. First, the Secretary of the Treasury is to instruct the U.S. executive directors of the international financial institutions to work in opposition to and vote against, any extension by these institutions of any financial or technical assistance or grants of any kind to the government of Serbia. Montenegro's reformist government is exempted from these sanctions.”