Political Quotes

“I want to enthusiastically accept the amendment offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos). It improves the bill greatly. It emphasizes the importance of creating a secure environment in Afghanistan to ensure that humanitarian agencies will have access to meet the emergency needs of the Afghanistan people, and it calls on the President to develop a plan to address security concerns in Afghanistan. To those people who might think this is too prescriptive, too interventionist, I think otherwise. I think it is only prudent to suggest to the President that we are authorizing a lot of money and we have a lot of things to be done, and we are expressing our hope and our request really that he come up with a strategy for employing the funds and the resources we are authorizing, because it is vitally important that we not flounder over there, that we know what we are doing, and that people think about an orderly way to bring security and stability to that part of the country. This is prudent, it is wise, and I hope my colleagues will accept it. Madam Chairman, I congratulate the gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos) for adding it to our bill.”