Political Quotes

“I yield myself 5 minutes. I was just out to a hospital a week or so ago, and a young woman whose husband was in the bed right next to her, and she said, I didn't join the Army to fight for Iraq. He joined to fight for the United States. We don't send people to fight for other countries. We send them to fight for the United States' national security. That is the first lesson we learn, and then we send them with overwhelm force and then we have an exit strategy. What we are looking for is all the same thing. All of us want the same thing. We want a resolution. We want a positive resolution to what is going on in Iraq. We want a plan. We want a plan that we can live with. It is not enough to say stay the course. We need somebody to tell us exactly how we are going to do this. When you talk about the amount of money this is costing us per month, and I think about $8 billion, which almost as long as I have been on the Defense Subcommittee, and all of the money that I have seen in the Defense Subcommittee, and I can't recognize what $1 billion is, $450 billion at the end of this year. Then I think how long did it take us to pay for the Vietnam War? It took us almost 18 years at 18 percent interest rates to pay for the Vietnam War. There were a lot more people, a lot more of a cross- section of people fighting in the Vietnam War, and yet a plurality of people still supported the Vietnam War to the very end. Let me read something.…”