Political Quotes

“we just got back from Iraq last Saturday. I just want to share with you a couple of thoughts that I had while I was there and coming back because once you go and you look and you see and you feel what is going on in that country--I am going to oppose this amendment, but I am opposing the amendment, and I am opposing the idea, but not because some of my good colleagues, for whom I have the utmost respect, are promoting this. There are as many Iraqis and more dying today than there are Americans. If we lose one American life, it is a tragedy. But their new police department that is on the street is doing a good job, and they are paying with their lives also. I am not going to get into whether we can afford it or we can't afford it or whether they can afford it or they can't afford it. But this investment, my colleagues, is probably one of the biggest ones we will make. The returns in the next 20 years will be way beyond expectation. We are changing something in the Middle East that has not even been touched since the end of World War I. We went into those communities where poverty is rampant, with trash, garbage. Kids are happy. They come up to you. We talked to parents in refurbished schools. And, by the way, we have refurbished 1,500 of them, done by an Iraqi contractor who hired 30,000 Iraqi workmen to do it. We talked to parents. I talked to one woman there and asked: Do you want us to go away? She said: No, absolutely not.…”