Political Quotes

“I mean, whether it is in Afghanistan where they were under the control of the Russians and the Taliban for 12 years and their per capita income is $150, where they do not have the rule of law, they do not have police agencies in place, they do not have a judicial system in place, they do not have transparent government agencies, so they have to go through that whole building process and they have to learn about representative government. It is unrealistic for America, for Congress, or for anyone else to expect that by July 1 they will be like us, that they will fully understand representative government. That is going to take a tremendous amount of work; and we are doing this work in a very difficult environment, because there are still folks there who, if they saw and could identify the Iraqis that were meeting with the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Pence), those folks will become targets. There are groups out there, this is still a very deadly environment, but the gentleman is absolutely right. These people are going to be at the leading edge of building a new country.”