Political Quotes

“Because American lives might be at stake here, I think I might just respond briefly to the previous speaker. Mr. Speaker, American foreign policy under Republican and Democrat administrations alike has always been to support and defend true democracies around the world from external attack. I call Members' attention to that: outside military aggression. Internal disputes and civil wars are another issue altogether. If we were to lift the arms embargo on the official Bosnian Government, which we should have done months ago and allow them to defend themselves and allow them to obtain the strategic weaponry necessary to defend themselves, without sending one American soldier into this civil war situation, that is the direction we ought to be going. Let us get back to the subject we rose to speak on. Mr. Speaker, this modified closed rule on a bill as important as the Independent Counsel Act is an insult to the entire House and the American people.”