Political Quotes

“I stand here as a past opponent of lifting the embargo, but not necessarily as a supporter of the administration's policies in that part of the world. I think we have been vacillating and indecisive, and I think we have invested far more authority in the United Nations than they are militarily capable of handling. It has reached the point where our forces on the ground are actually ridiculing what we are establishing in terms of policy, for the forces that are on standby in that part of the world, they are not talking about the rapid reaction force, they are talking about the reaction force, or the reaction-reaction force; or, listen to this one, UNPROFOR-UNPROFOR, the U.N. Protection Force for the U.N. Protection Force. It is clear to me that the administration needs to understand it needs to put some steel behind its words; and if we are going to offer safe havens for innocent civilians, they need to know they are going to be kept safe. But the real choice in this debate is between a policy that will further more violence or less violence, and I would submit that adding more ammunition, more weapons, to an already volatile situation is going to be counterproductive in terms of what we want to accomplish.”