Political Quotes

“last December, Senator Brownback of Kansas and I went to Africa and went to a part of Africa I had never visited before. It is a part most Americans are not familiar with. It is called the Democratic Republic of Congo. We have known of it throughout history as the Congo. It is a huge expanse of country, with its capital of Kinshasa in the western part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and then in the far eastern regions is a section of the world that has been hit hard time and again by devastating loss. In the area around Goma, in the eastern part of Congo, a few years ago they were hit by a volcano that left 2\1/2\ feet of lava in this poor town, destroying most of the buildings that were there. They have been victims of disease, of all of the trappings of poverty, which we are aware of in the continent of Africa, while at the same time there has been an ongoing war, which has killed so many innocent people. It is amazing, the resilience and the courage of the people in east Congo. Senator Brownback and I went there because we had heard that, with little fanfare in the West, 1,000 people a day were dying in this part of the world from all of the different events I have just noted. We went to a hospital in Goma, which is known as the Docs' Hospital, run by a Protestant church, in an effort to provide some basic health care in the Congo. We met with some amazing doctors who work for the Government of the Congo.…”