Political Quotes

“I am severely disappointed that this legislation continues a pattern of rewarding the Government of Indonesia, which continues to engage in some of the most oppressive and racist activities in the world in their maltreatment of the people of East Timor. Indonesia's record in East Timor is one of the great moral failings in the world, and unfortunately it is a further moral failing that the rest of the world stands back and allows the people of East Timor to be so oppressed. I understand that this is military and educational training. Theoretically just for civilians, in ways it is supposed to help. But you know when you are in East Timor being oppressed, when you are being killed or imprisoned by this brutal regime, the fact the people doing the killing and the Indonesians are a little better educated in civic values than they otherwise might have been is no consolation. I regret very much that this legislation continues that practice.”