Political Quotes

“I rise today to speak about the New START treaty that President Obama and President Medvedev signed in Prague on April 8. In fulfilling the Senate's constitutional responsibility to offer our advice and consent on the treaty, we must give it our diligent and timely consideration. I have previously spoken about the fundamental justification for the New START treaty. It serves our national security interests. What I want to address in this and succeeding statements are some of the more significant specifics of the treaty and the arguments we are likely to hear about them. Today, I am going to focus on the strength of the treaty's monitoring and verification regime, which is established in the treaty itself, given more detail in the Protocol, and even more detail in the annexes. The verification regime in the New START treaty is extensive, elaborate, and appropriate to the treaty's central limits and today's world. Secretary Gates has testified that when we hear from the intelligence community, they will tell us they are confident they can monitor it. The verification regime speaks strongly for ratification, and sooner rather than later.…”