Political Quotes

“Usually it is some poor uneducated kid from the Colombian countryside, and I get every indication that they expect American kids to fight in a war they will not fight in and the American taxpayers to pay for a war that they will not pay for. It is with some hesitation that I will vote to help them with America's money and equipment. I will not, however, vote to send America's sons and daughters off to fight a war in Colombia that the sons and daughters of Colombia and their political leaders often will not fight in. This amendment would limit America's troop strength in Colombia to 300 military personnel. ... I am asking my colleagues to put such a cap on American troop strength in Colombia. Should it be the will of the majority of this House to break that cap, then it should be done in a deliberate manner and by a vote of this body, and not something that some president on a whim gets us involved in.”