Political Quotes

“I want Members to see an editorial that was in the Wall Street Journal by Ronan Farrow and Mia Farrow entitled ``The Genocide Olympics.'' It deals with the issue that there was a full page ad today in The Washington Post with regard to the genocide that is taking place in Sudan, and the one country that has the opportunity to really make a difference to stop the genocide in Sudan is the country of China. Mia Farrow says in this editorial, ``One World, One Dream is China's slogan for the 2008 Olympics. But there is one nightmare that China shouldn't be allowed to sweep under the rug. That nightmare is Darfur, where more than 400,000 people have been killed and more than 22 million driven from flaming villages by the Chinese-backed government of Sudan.'' I have seen those villages and the burning of the villages and we know that the genocide could be stopped by China. Mia Farrow goes on to say, ``That so many corporate sponsors want the world to look away from that atrocity during the games is bad enough. But equally disappointing is the decision of artists like director Steven Spielberg, who quietly visited China this month as he prepares to help stage the Olympic ceremonies, to sanitize Beijing's image.''”