Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, let us make this clear. This is not about some social issue. The real impetus for this barring of the American military from our college campuses is because of the left-wing core of administrators and professors who do not like this country. And we could substitute another protest issue for them in this thing and it would not make a bit of difference. These are the same people who in many cases had protests in favor of the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. Many of them protested our involvement in El Salvador, protested our bringing democracy to Nicaragua, protested our participation in the first Desert Storm in the early 1990s, and in this recent bringing of freedom to Iraq. They protested all those things. They hate all things military. And the interesting aspect of this debate is that these same left-wing professors and administrators profess to let young people make up their own minds. Free thinking is theoretically their trademark. Let us have some free thinking. Let us allow the military to be on the campuses. Let us allow the students to have access to their information, and let us let them make up their own minds. There is no draft here. This is a volunteer military. They do not have to join the military.”