Political Quotes

“Thank you very much, Mr. President. Mr. President, for many years I have supported the efforts to get a full and complete accounting of our missing in action from the Vietnam war. As a woman in both the House and the Senate, my heart went out to the families of the MIA's whose wives, mothers, and daughters never knew what happened to their loved ones, also particularly to the sons and daughters who never even knew their dad because he was missing in action when they were either a child or before they were born. These gallant, brave families have faced at every step over the last 2rac{1}{2} decades resistance, rejection, and even stonewalling of their efforts by the Vietnamese Government and often they got little help or little support from their own United States Government. They feel hurt. They always feel abandonment. At the same time, I have always supported our Vietnam veterans, those who vote, those who died, and many who bear the permanent wounds of war. My support has not been by words but I have tried to do it by deeds.”