Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, the other side talks about all kinds of reasons why the United States should not send any of its troops into Kosovo. We know that there has been ethnic cleansing. We know there has been genocide. I was always taught that two wrongs do not make a right and to me it is ridiculous to say, well, there is genocide going on in all parts of the world so therefore we should not intervene in any part of the world. That does not make sense to me at all. I rise in opposition to the gentlewoman from Florida's amendment which in effect guts the gentleman from Connecticut's amendment. The isolationist attitude that I hear amongst some of my colleagues is indeed troubling and puzzling. We have heard these arguments time and time and time again. We heard these arguments during the Second World War when 6 million people plus were ethnically cleansed and the Holocaust was there. I am not saying that this is on the same level, but when innocent people are killed because of their race, or ethnicity, we have a right and a duty, I think, to respond. We saw in Bosnia that until the United States grabbed the bull by the horns, Europe was not capable of stopping the carnage, and we saw 200,000 people ethnically cleansed because of their ethnicity, and we will see it again in Kosovo unless we are willing to step in.”