Political Quotes

“I yield myself such time as I may consume. Dr. Robert Pape from Harvard's Journal of International Security has been quoted as saying the following: Sanctions have failed to achieve their objectives in 95.7 percent of cases since World War I, and sanctions are more than three times more likely to end in military conflict than success. So what we have here is that sanctions inevitably equal a failure of diplomacy, and war becomes a failure of sanctions. So we must ask ourselves, while we stand here for nonproliferation, something that I agree with, how do we stop the nonproliferation of war? Particularly, how do we forestall any possibility of a nuclear war? Now, Lawrence Korb was the Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration, and he serves now as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Last month, he submitted an article to the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, and I want to quote from it because it's relevant not only to this debate, but it is relevant to the economic stress this country is feeling right now. He says that since the second term of the Reagan administration, nuclear weapons have been of declining strategic relevance, but our budget barely reflects that. Our country is slated to spend $700 billion over the next 10 years on nuclear weapons programs.…”