Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, we have just completed almost an hour's worth of work of starting a new era in our relationship with Russia on nuclear weapons. It has been bold. It has been bipartisan. It has been bilateral. We have shown, without any doubt, that we are willing to move into a new era. But, Mr. Chairman, as we saw on September 11, there are those people who do not play by the rules. Anyone who would take out almost 3,000 lives in the most unbelievable way thinkable would not hesitate to do work in one of 10,000 underground bunkers and caves around the world, most of which are in our adversaries' territory, to develop and potentially use weapons of mass destruction. This amendment would go to the extreme. It would prevent the President from even doing a feasibility study. This is not about peace. I am a teacher by profession. Nobody wants peace more than I do. We do not have a handle on peace with a certain few in this body. This is about giving the President legitimate ability to protect us against those threats that we see emerging in the 21st century. I ask my colleagues to vote no on the Markey amendment.”