Political Quotes

“more than 200 years ago, the first President of the United States addressed the Nation's first Congress with these prophetic words, ``the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the Republican model of government are . . . finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.'' Now we find ourselves in a new century, confronted by new trials. We have withstood attempts at invasion, survived a bloody civil war, endured two world wars and prevailed in the long twilight struggle President Kennedy spoke of more than forty years ago. Ten years ago, confronted by the specter of Kuwait brutally overrun by Iraqi forces, the United Nations and the United States led a coalition of more than 28 nations in a war of liberation. Then President Bush plainly outlined our war aims. ``Our objectives'' he said ``are clear. Saddam Hussein's forces will leave Kuwait. The legitimate Government of Kuwait will be restored. . . . and Kuwait will once again be free.'' All of this was achieved. He then went on to say that once peace was restored, it was our Nation's hope, ``that Iraq will live as a peaceful and cooperative member of the family of nations.'' this hope has gone unfulfilled. And so, in Franklin Roosevelt's words, ``there has come a time, in the midst of swift happenings, to pause for a moment and take stock--to recall what our place in history has been, and to rediscover what we are and what we may be.…”