Political Quotes

“there is a movie that I saw recently which depicted three actors who became troubleshooters and helped to save a small town in Mexico. The name of the movie was ``The Three Amigos.'' As I recall, they had a slogan that wherever there was injustice or poverty, they would be there. In reality, in real life, there are two amigos who have organized a small task force that is called Rescue Task Force and where there are problems in the world, where people are sick or need medical help or they are victims of a crossfire in a real shooting war, the two amigos are there. In fact, they are with us today in these Chambers, Mr. Speaker. It is Gary Becks, who works on my staff, and Wendell Cutting, my chief of staff in my congressional district. Wendell is the cochairman of this task force and does it without any remuneration. They have gone to places like Albania. They were the first people into the Kosovo conflict. They went into the first refugee camp, a camp in which every single child had some type of an illness or a malady. They were the first people to distribute food and medicine. And they were the first people to go up into the very remote camps through what was basically a no-man's land where a number of nongovernmental organizations had taken rifle fire just a few days before. If you look at the outline of what Rescue Task Force does, you can look at the pictures and see Gary Becks dressing wounds in Afghanistan.…”