Political Quotes

“I speak in support of the amendment of the junior Senator from Massachusetts, Senator Kerry, urging the President to end the economic embargo against Vietnam. My decision to support Senator Kerry was not an easy one, for I have strongly supported the embargo for many years. I, too, still walk the slate path and touch names on the wall of friends who never came back from Vietnam. I, too, want to leave no stone unturned in our efforts to account for the missing. I, too, want simply to have the closure that would come from a full accounting. In America's relations with Vietnam, nothing is more important than accounting for our MIA's. Let me repeat. Nothing is more important than accounting for our MIA's. For MIA families, the war is not over, cannot be over until the fate of their loved ones is known. By imposing the embargo, we have subordinated the interests of some Americans, those who would benefit from Vietnam's economic opening, to those of the MIA families. That has always been the proper decision to make. Now, however, the situation is different.”