Political Quotes

“this resolution has now been cleared by all Senators. In my remarks, I will state basically what the resolution states because I think the words here are important to reflect the sentiment, hopefully, of all Senators. Immediately after Prime Minister Rabin and Chairman Arafat shook hands on the White House lawn last September, extremists on both sides vowed that the declaration of principles that were signed that day would never come to fruition. That is what we say in our first ``whereas'' clause. We then point out that since the signing of the declaration of principles in September 1993, many innocent people have been the victims of vicious acts of terrorism, and that the massacre that took place on February 25, 1994, at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron was an act of murderous terrorism directed at innocent persons at prayer. We further point out that the purpose of these acts of terrorism, both at Hebron and all of the other acts of terrorism which have taken place, was to derail the Middle East peace talks. Then we point out that as diplomats have inched their way toward fulfilling each article of the declaration, extremists have just as painstakingly plotted disruption, preyed on innocents and haphazardly killed and mauled innocent people.”