Political Quotes

“we turn again to the Feingold-Reid amendment. I have cosponsored this amendment in the past, and I am happy to do so again today. This amendment is another chance for us to show real leadership by forging a responsible and binding path out of the quagmire in which we find ourselves in Iraq. In just a few short months, we will be starting the sixth year of this war. We just watched the series on television, the wonderful piece that Ken Burns produced of that war, a terrible, difficult war. It was long over by the time we engaged in this war--a war that fought the world, the Far East, Europe, Africa, the South Pacific. And here we are soon to start the sixth year of this war, and we are in a war that has been fought in an area the size of the State of California. This amendment puts before us a binding national policy, a strategy that Democrats and some courageous Republicans have advocated for months. I don't agree with my friend from Nebraska, Chuck Hagel, on a lot of issues, but I say that his leadership, leading Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, on this war issue is one of the most courageous political acts I have seen. I have told him so. I believe it. So there are Republicans who have joined in this effort, and I admire every one of them. We are asking for a strategy that is the best path for the people of the United States and Iraq. It is a path.…”