Political Quotes

“I yield myself an additional 5 minutes. One of the most troubling aspects of this legislation is, and it may be the area of the legislation that has not received much attention but it needs to have attention right now, and that is that this legislation puts this country at odds with Russia in a way that I think is actually against the interests of world peace. It goes on to call out the Russian Federation specifically with respect to saying that they're assisting these nuclear programs. This really, in a sense, is a confession of how far away we've gone from the mark of START I and START II, about how far we've gone away from that time when President Reagan met with Premier Gorbachev to talk about what we can do to start to build down these nuclear weapons. I remember when Vladimir Putin, who is now being reviled, when Vladimir Putin made the offer to President George W. Bush to start to get rid of nuclear weapons, and, unfortunately, his efforts were rebuffed. {time} 2130 We should be engaging Russia directly on getting rid of nuclear weapons. Instead, what we have here is a restriction on payments in connection with the International Space Station. That's in here. You know, remember, the International Space Station was the centerpiece of U.S.-Russia cooperation. We held that out as proving that we could work together on Earth as it is in heaven. We showed that that space station was a platform for cooperation and peace between Russia and the United States.…”