Political Quotes

“First, the devil is in the details. Mr. Milosevic has burned every village in Kosovo, or almost every village, and the simple fact is that he is now going to stop burning, now that there is nothing left, is not necessarily a victory. I have two staff members who, as volunteers, have delivered some 20,000 packages of food and medicine to the refugee camps. They report to me that massive numbers of men are missing. By British estimate, I believe it is, 100,000 men from the Kosovar peasant population. We need to know what has happened to those men. Have they been executed? Are there mass graves? Are they in the custody of Serbs? So the Serbs are moving back, in theory, or moving back into Serbia, but many questions remain. But a very important thing has happened here, Mr. Chairman. The ranking member has informed me that the President has called just a few minutes ago and said, in response to our concerns, that he is not going to spend any readiness money on reconstruction or on peacekeeping operations, but that he will come to us with a supplemental appropriations request.”