Political Quotes

“On that point, it is interesting that since the days of World War II people have asked in schools and colleges and in family settings, how could the world stand by while Adolf Hitler gassed people to death in these gas chambers in places like Dachau and Auschwitz, and literally killed millions of people in such a horrible way, gassed them to death? How could the world stand by? Well, the answer is, if you look at what happened to these Kurdish villages and you see the pictures, which we have all seen, of little Kurdish babies and their mothers lying on the ground after a heavy dose of poison gas by Chemical Ali, the gas-dispensing Minister of the Department of Defense of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, we see the answer. You know what is interesting, after those Kurdish villages were gassed and those people were killed in that despicable manner, there were no demonstrations in Berlin or London or in liberal places throughout the United States. In fact, nobody, nobody in the world did anything except one country, the United States of America. Now, we have missed some of these and one thing that I have regretted is seeing those bodies float down the Rwanda River after the massive massacres that took place in Africa where innocent people were killed in huge numbers and the United States, with all of our power, did nothing. And as a Member of Congress, I wish and I regret that I had done more, that I had taken an effort.…”