Political Quotes

“I had a long conversation yesterday with the chairman of the committee and with his ranking member, Senator McCain. I understand the importance of the legislation. I know Senator McCain is trying to work to narrow the focus of what we do when we get on that bill. We will get on that; it is only a question of when. Mr. McCAIN. Madam President, I want to mention to my friend from Connecticut, as we continue this colloquy, there is another aspect of this that I would appreciate his comments on. We all agree that Bashar Assad will go. We know that. Now, the question is how many will die, how many are wounded, how many are killed, and what happens to the weapons of mass destruction? I think we have established that the longer it goes on, the more those threats increase, and the more dangerous the situation becomes, the harder it will be to resolve once Bashar Assad does leave. I also ask my friend from Connecticut, how will the Syrian people feel about the United States of America if we continue to sit by and provide them not even moral assistance, much less the physical and logistical assistance the Senator and I discussed being necessary. Senator Lieberman and I have been to Libya on numerous occasions. I was there at an exhilarating moment--at the time of their elections. I can tell you firsthand from seeing a couple hundred thousand people celebrating that they are grateful to the United States of America for what we did.…”