Political Quotes

“this deployment is not about Europe; this is about the United States. When we deploy troops, we deploy in our national security. Now, this is a cute way of trying to reduce our deployment to Europe. We had 400,000 troops in there for years against the Soviet Union. Now, we can argue about how many troops ought to be there right now, but when we are doing it this way, NATO's in command. We said the U.N. could not do it, so we put NATO in command. This amendment says no presidential waiver. It says, okay, if they do not live up to their obligation, then we have to pull our troops out. Now, let us take Luxembourg; let us take Iceland. Let us say there is a lobbying effort for those two little countries, and they get them to pull their troops out. They are deciding the foreign policy of the United States. Iceland and Luxembourg, under this amendment, would be setting the foreign policy for the United States. We are in Kosovo to save lives. Now, there is a lot of people that can disclaim that. A lot of people can say let the Europeans do it. They, obviously, could not get their act together, or we would not be involved. We are involved because of the security of the United States. Do my colleagues know how many wars have started in the Balkans? Two wars started in the Balkans. My dad and three of his brothers served in World War II.”