Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, the amendment I have at the desk I know is an important amendment. We spent the weekend reading a number of articles about the very serious problems of North Korea. We have already had one debate and one amendment, a sense of the Congress amendment, pass or going to be voted on here shortly that has to do with sanctions for North Korea, and I cannot tell, and neither can anyone else, what the impact is going to be of sanctions on North Korean actions, what the President intends to do. Those are the kinds of things that clearly we do not know what the result is going to be of those kinds of efforts, and whether we can avoid, ultimately avoid, and we all hope and pray we do, a confrontation with North Korea, hoping that the North Koreans will in fact begin to comply with the international agreements that they are partners to, but there is something that we clearly know ought to be done in regard to the problems with North Korea. That is that the South Koreans themselves have to begin to acquire the kind of facilities that permit them to perform their ground mission for which they have entered into agreement with the United States.”