Political Quotes

“I know my colleague is waiting to speak, so I will hold myself to that 5 minutes. When we came back after 9/11, we gathered together on a bipartisan basis. We passed the PATRIOT Act. We initiated this military effort against those who attacked us on 9/11. There was a true spirit of bipartisanship. Sadly, things broke down. They broke down when we invaded Iraq, and they haven't gotten well since. The President's decision to move forward with the invasion of Iraq with Great Britain by our side, but really with the American troops in the forefront, with the American taxpayers paying the bill, has divided us as a Nation. A majority of Americans today question whether that was the right decision. I question whether that was the right decision. I was one of 23 who voted against going to war. I did not believe the intelligence supported it. Events that have happened since--we have lost 2,671 of our best and bravest and finest American soldiers. They have given their lives in that war in Iraq; 19,000 or more have returned seriously injured. We have spent over $320 billion. We spend anywhere from $1.5 billion to $3 billion a week on a war with no end in sight. We went through this administration's effort to redefine torture to abandon the Geneva Conventions that we had stood by for decades. We saw the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.…”