Political Quotes

“I have heard my colleagues come to the Senate today criticizing the President about the handling of Iraq and the war on terrorism. I hate for it just to lie there and somebody not explain to the American people that we are at a war. This is a war that is as big as World War II or World War I. It is global in its size, but it is with a different enemy than we have ever known before in the history of this country or any other country. It is terrorism. It is performed by people who do not wear uniforms, who operate in the shadows and are faceless, are indiscriminate in whose life they take-- whether they be combatants or noncombatants, men or women, young or old--and a respecter of no nationality. That is the enemy. Some would actually question the decision to move against Iraq or Afghanistan. Let me remind my fellow Americans and also my colleagues, we could go back as far as Beirut when a building was bombed there and over 200 marines lost their lives. It was a car bombing. We had never experienced that before. It gave us a pattern of what was to come in later years. We have heard the crying of the Iraqi people. I believe the spirit of freedom lives in their breast as it does in ours.”