Sam Brownback

There is strong precedent for cutting off relations with the PA.

The time has come to recognize that the Palestinian Authority is not a partner for peace.

Yasser Arafat has demonstrated a manifest unwillingness to address this issue.

I rise to urge my colleagues and the American people to seriously consider the state of religious freedom around the globe. Exactly 5 years ago we passed groundbreaking legislation aimed at combating international religious persecution…

One of the things we need to be constantly focusing on is what can we do to grow jobs and create jobs. We have been pressing forward. The Federal Reserve has been pressing forward, keeping interest rates low. We have been pressing forward…

this is an historic day. For the first time since Roe v. Wade, we are going to deal with the issue of abortion and limit the practice in one significant way. This is an historic day for life; for establishing and supporting a culture of…

I rise to discuss something that I consider a major cornerstone to any free society--religious freedom. I recently offered an amendment during the markup that would condition the money going to the Coalition Provisional Authority, CPA, by…

I rise in opposition to that amendment and I wanted to indicate why. First, I want to indicate how we got to the point we are today. There were a number of people who came forward to say this is a huge bill-- and it is. This is too much. I…

We don't want Iraq. That is I don't. You could poll a million Kansans if you want to and I don't know if you'll find one that says that we want that.

this is where we are, and he's right.

Some Iraqis are beginning to regard us as occupiers and not as liberators.

What that called for was regime change in Baghdad, because we had been fussing around for a long period of time with Saddam Hussein.

The $20.3 billion in grants to Iraq the President seeks as part of this $87 billion supplemental bespeak grandeur of vision equal to the one which created the free world at the end of the Second World War.

It seems to me that that is a very important part of this story that needs to be told.

I think it is time we also report the successes.

We have to do what I believe this administration is doing.

If we fail to recreate Iraq with a sovereign democracy sustained by a solid economy we will have provided the terrorists with an incredible advantage in their war against us.

It seems to me that we have been under attack.

I was in the Congress, in the 105th Congress, when we put forward the Iraq Liberation Act.

Equipment is critical for them.

That the money be granted and not loaned is essential.

I hope you do not become McNamara. I hope you do not give us rosy scenarios that can't possibly play out.

I'm from the 'show me' State, and what they're showing us is that the battle against terrorism is being carried out in Iraq today.

We've got to keep moving them down Ambassador Bremer's seven-point plan towards developing a constitution, ratifying a constitution, and ultimately having elections and transferring sovereignty.

State-of-the-art must be obtained so that they can train effectively.