Political Quotes

“And not first class. First class is now prohibited. There was a time earlier when this was a problem. But now it has been eliminated. They do not permit first-class travel--there is a flat, absolute prohibition against it. I heard my other colleague talk about this conference in Switzerland. Yes, a conference was held in Switzerland, not for democracy in Switzerland but in order to be a convening place for people coming from the Balkans. You cannot hold a conference in the Balkans. They were bringing people out of Serbia to discuss human rights. They could not do that in Serbia, so they held a conference in Switzerland. The conference was not for the purpose of democracy in Switzerland. That was the convening place to discuss serious democratic problems nearby elsewhere in Europe. We ought to at least, in the course of this debate, try to keep the facts before us.”