Political Quotes

“There is truly a bipartisan consensus on our committee that the time has long since passed for us to address the critical need to change the regime in Burma and to be able to recognize the courage of Aung San Suu Kyi, the potential we have there to have a transformational effect in that troubled country. It was my great privilege to spend an afternoon with my children in her compound when she was under house arrest. Watching the harassment we went through just to go there with the charge, thinking about what that represented, this brave woman, insightful, being surrounded by thugs at a time when her country was ravaged in terms of AIDS, in terms of economic deprivation, in terms of the atrocities that have been documented on this floor already this afternoon in terms of what the junta has inflicted upon their people.”