Political Quotes

“I can hardly believe the arguments here. We have spent over $20 billion in the Balkans. We flew 75 percent of the sorties using American flesh and blood to do it. And what this amendment says is that when the Europeans make a pledge, they ought to live up to it. If my colleague goes to a town hall meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and says the Europeans said they were going to give us $140 million and they only gave us $30 million, they are in trouble and so we have to cough up the rest of the bill. I would suggest to my colleague that, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, he will be run out on a rail. The fact is that all we are doing in this amendment is to say, when they make a pledge, when they say they are going to give $140 million to help Kosovo, just give it. When it is said that we degrade the military by offering this amendment, that is total bunk. The military does not lose this money. In fact, the money would give increased readiness because it would say that we do not have to spread ourselves out all over the world. The military does not lose anything. My colleagues should stand up for their taxpayers. Because if they do not, they are going to come to the town halls and they are going to hold them accountable.”