Political Quotes

“the value of this resolution is cast in a way that its failure to be enacted by this Congress would make havoc reign in the House of Representatives. What do I mean by that? If we should fail to adopt this resolution and some new terror strike visits our land and kills more of our people, God forbid, then we will be rushing back to this floor. Remember now, if this resolution fails, we will be rushing back to this floor eager to give new powers to the President to do something about the new terror attack. That is what the value of this resolution is. We are preparing the President, we are preparing the Congress of the United States, we are preparing the people of the United States, and more vitally we are preparing the Armed Forces of the United States in a stalwart resolution which outlines the resolve of the United States to prepare for any kind of action that might be required not just to stabilize the region in which Iraq lies but also to stabilize the entire civilized world with respect to the threat and fear of terror. And so if we forget everything else about what the resolution may do, if we recognize that our national security is the matter that atmospheres across every single word of the resolution, then we have additional rationale for adopting the resolution.”