Political Quotes

“It is an insatiable hunger for expansionism and aggrandizement, and it is a political compulsion to say to one's electorate that we are going to expand even further until all of Yugoslavia will be called Serbia, and then, perhaps, a further aggression will occur. But whether it is Kosovo, whether it is Croatia, whether it is other areas of the former Yugoslavia--Macedonia, Slovenia--they will not stop, in my opinion. But let me say in concluding my remarks and in supporting the remarks of the gentleman from Massachusetts and the gentleman from Indiana, that we mentioned the military leader and we mentioned two political leaders. There are others who have been branded by Secretary Eagleburger, and our Government and the international community as war criminals. Beyond our action to stop this conflict, which we must do, we need to take efforts to prevent similar conflicts--ones based on hate--from happening again. To do that, we need to eliminate the sense of populations aggrieved by aggression that they have not had redress, so that generations in the future, as we know happens in the Balkans and in other places, resort to violence to address old grievances sometimes centuries old. To do that, we need to prosecute those who have committed war crimes. While principally committed by Serb militants, this applies equally across the board. If the innocent are to be vindicated, the guilty must be punished.”