Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, the NATO mission in Yugoslavia has prevailed over the brutal dictatorship of Slobodan Milosevic. NATO has shown tremendous resolve, tremendous persistence, throughout this crisis. Now that this diplomatic resolution has been reached on NATO's terms, on NATO's terms, this is not the time to show weakness, to cut funding or to damage the unity of the western democracies. What can the proponents of this bill be thinking by cutting funding for peacekeeping? This is not the Republican party of my father or the Republican party of my grandfather. I learned around the dinner table that the primary rule of foreign policy was politics ends at the water's edge. The modern Republican Party in this House seems to have forgotten that lesson. They seem to be setting foreign policy on personal considerations and a personal hatred for the President of the United States. Important challenges continue to face us in Yugoslavia. We have got to return the refugees and house them and clothe them and feed them by winter. We have got to avoid partition of Kosovo. We have got to make sure that Milosevic does not receive immunity for his war crimes, and Serbia must not receive international aid until Yugoslavia becomes democratic. What we have achieved is that NATO has shown it is willing and able to keep the peace in Europe.”