Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman , we are in a full committee markup, and I ran out because I wanted to be here when this bill came up. One, I rise in strong support of the bill. I want to thank the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tancredo) and the gentleman from California (Mr. Royce) and the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Payne) and the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) and the gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos) and also Senators Brownback and Frist and the others over in the Senate for their good work. I also rise in strong support of the amendment because oil is basically fueling this, bringing about death. There have been 2.2 million people that died in Sudan in the last 15 to 16 years. Every major terrorist group operating in the Middle East has an operation, a training camp outside of Khartoum. Disease, the sleeping sickness and so many of the diseases are running rampant in Sudan, particularly in the southern Sudan. So the passage of this bill will send a message that the American people and the Congress care deeply about stopping the fighting, stopping the death, stopping the oil and stopping slavery. This is one of two or three countries in the world today where there is actually organized slavery. So I just want to thank the committee and both sides of the aisle for bringing this up and for the good work.…”