Political Quotes

“Absolutely. To get to the first point of the gentleman, the blame game has got to end. This should not be a time, with American troops in harm's way, that we pick partisan fights back and forth over who can blame the other side the most. We are where we are. And I would say to the gentleman, I would say that probably 99, if not all of our colleagues, 99 percent of them agree with us that the end game is the same for all of us. We all think that Milosevic's activities have been outrageous. In fact, many of us think he should be held for war crimes that are being committed by the Serbs. We all feel that this conflict must be ended while keeping the dignity and the coordination of NATO intact. We all want to have the reputation of the U.S. intact. Our end results that all of us want are the same. The question is, how do we get there? Do we continue this massive aerial bombing campaign? Do we allow ourselves to slide into a ground war which could pose a direct confrontation between NATO and the U.S. and Russia, which would be dangerous, or do we try to find out using whatever means we have to figure if there is an alternative? We have a means that no one else has, and that means was established 5 years ago. We did not approach the Russians. The Russians came to me 3 rac{1}{2} weeks ago and they pleaded with me to reach out to see if we could find a new way. And in doing this, and I want to repeat this, I talked to no Member of the Republican party.”