Political Quotes

“until tonight the most important vote that I had cast as a Member of this body was the vote that I cast in 1991 to support then President George Bush in our Gulf War. Now we are at another grave moment of decision for our Nation. This is a tragedy of unspeakable proportions. We grieve for all of those who have been affected by this horror. After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, Melville wrote a poem that expresses as best we can the force of our emotion in the wake of this horror. He wrote, ``There is a sobbing of the strong, and a pall upon the land. But the people in their weeping bare the iron hand. Beware the people weeping when they bare the iron hand.'' The cowards who planned and executed the attack and any state that harbors them should be aware and beware of our iron hand, because they will pay. As a Congress we will lock arms, we will rally behind our President and we will confront terror as one, because freedom will prevail.”