Gary Ackerman: “We could not mean that only for ourselves, because that would be ingenuous. Never again will I want to remind my friends…”

“We could not mean that only for ourselves, because that would be ingenuous. Never again will I want to remind my friends who have said that, which include probably everybody in this House, that never again is upon us yet again. What is it that we are to do? Are we to shrug our shoulder? Are we to examine costs? Are we that people that would let others die unjustly, unpleasantly, because we are cheap, because we are thoughtless? I do not think so. This is the time to act in the interests of justice and in the interests of peace lest the notion that we are a mighty and just Nation be but an illusion.”