Political Quotes

“Shame on all of us in the West to allow this genocide to continue. Shame on all of us in the West for our inaction. And I think the point was made very clearly by both my colleagues that we have encouraged the Serbian aggression by our inaction. Mr. Speaker, much was made of the so-called new world order, and I think what is so shameful about this is that we are setting policy here for decades to come with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the United States remaining as the last superpower of the world, our generation has a chance to kind of set the agenda for the next several decades the way the generation right after the Second World War did, with the Marshal Plan and things like that which put everything in motion for the next 40 years, and what we are seeing here is that we are failing miserably to say that aggression does not pay and that the world in the so-called new world order will not tolerate aggression. We are showing the Serbs that aggression does pay and that brutality does pay and that genocide does pay, and here it is 50 years after the Nazi era and we are seeing the same kinds of atrocities committed on civilian populations, and the world wrings its hands.”