Political Quotes

“It is great to be down here on the floor with my friends and colleagues who want to continue to push for freedom and democracy. I dabble in this as not a professional on the committee, but I cannot think of a better way to spend one's additional free time than to work with the colleagues and friends that I have on the Committee on International Relations in promoting freedom and democracy. If the United States is not about freedom and democracy for ourselves and for other countries, then what are we for? ... They have upcoming elections. They are not being conducted fairly and freely, and there is harassment, there is intimidation, there are beatings. Even by their own rules, they are not allowing fair coverage by the state-run television media. It is important for us here to let them know publicly, through this debate and through passage of this resolution, that we are watching and that we are not going to go away; and we are going to join with our friends in the international community.”