Political Quotes

“the minority leader characterized this amendment as one of common sense. That is exactly what it is. When it comes to U.N. peacekeeping efforts, the United States contributes an incredible amount of money through logistics, air power, lethal weaponry, and manpower, in addition to cash. The soldiers, the sailors, marines and airmen who risk their lives to provide the wherewithal to keep indigenous people from killing themselves benefit from all of these contributions. Over the years, I have visited United States soldiers sweating in the Sinai, airmen feeding the peoples of Bosnia and northern Iraq, marines and sailors in Somalia, troops in Desert Storm, the DMZ in Korea, the war zone in Beirut, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Through the United Nations, America feeds and nurtures and protects people around the world. Because of earlier commitments, we provide $75 million for peacekeeping process in the Sinai, in Cyprus, and in Lebanon. That is under the appropriation bills, the Foreign Aid Subcommittee, apart from the provisions of this bill. Again, apart from the provisions of this bill, under the State-Justice appropriation bill, we have been contributing over 33 percent of all current U.N. peacekeeping operations. Recently, we trimmed down that figure, all the way down to 32 percent, still the most significant proportion of any country in the world.”