Political Quotes

“I, like all of America, was elated last night when we heard the news that the young girl from Utah, Elizabeth Smart, who had been missing for more than 9 months, had been found and reunited with her family. Most of the time, the vast majority of these stories about these girls--mostly girls who are kidnapped, abducted, stolen--end in bad news. This ended in good news. As a father and grandfather, I really don't know the emotion of a parent who has a child stolen. An abducted child must be the worst nightmare of a parent. But this nightmare ended as I have just related. The Justice Department says the number of children taken by strangers annually is between 3,000 and 4,000--it varies but thousands of children. Every day children are stolen. These children and their parents deserve the assistance of the American people and the helping hand of the Federal Government. We stand ready and willing to help. We all feel so helpless when a child is kidnapped. What can we do to help? There is not very much because mostly these stories end, not like Elizabeth Smart's, they end in tragedy.”