Political Quotes

“I thank my two colleagues from the other side of the aisle for joining with us today in this colloquy. Let me say how proud I was as a Republican Senator from Mississippi to stand shoulder to shoulder with my colleague from Maryland Ben Cardin. There are probably many places in Maryland he would rather have been at the beginning of July 2014, but he is someone who year after year has taken the time to travel to sometimes some rather unknown capital cities such as Baku or Chisinau, Moldova, and represent the United States in our partnership with the OSCE on the Helsinki Commission. As Senator Cardin said, the 1975 Final Act of the Helsinki Commission recognized 10 principles that 57 countries in Europe and Eurasia said we believe we can stand by and live with and live under, issues such as territorial integrity, sovereignty, refraining from the use of force-- very important cornerstones of peace, democracy, self-determination and the rule of law in Europe. It is certainly a fact well known within the OSCE and the delegations that come from far and wide to attend these that Ben Cardin is respected internationally, that his word carries weight, that he speaks on behalf of the United States of America, and on behalf of the OSCE countries with authority, evenhandedness, and fairness. So I think it meant a lot for someone of Senator Cardin's stature to come forward and present these.…”