Political Quotes

“let me say that last year, the House, the Senate and the administration engaged in what I would call and has been termed a historic act of grace, and it was designed to relieve the debt of the poorest nations of the world. My interests came about actually on an airplane flight from the middle of America, from Iowa, back home to Westerville, and I read the New York Times and there was a picture of a B2 bomber, and the question was ``what's the limits of America's power?'' When I read this article, I was really struck by the notion that while the United States has incredible military power, unprecedented military power and obviously now unprecedented economic power, many nations in the world were beginning to fear us, resent us. And as I thought about it, I thought if we have all of this power, and we do, it does not make any sense to not share some of the bounty that we have with those that have little. I must tell my colleagues, I am not particularly interested in all the calculations that have been presented tonight, because I have been in Angola, and I have seen people hauled with half bodies through little villages as a result of a civil war. This is not designed to provide aid to people who are in the middle of a civil war, but it is designed to provide some help and some hope to people who have absolutely nothing. The fact is that this resentment towards the United States has been growing.…”