Political Quotes

“this is a bill that I hope our colleagues will support. The 11 members of our delegation will be the original bipartisan sponsors of this bill. We have not yet dropped it. But it will be, in fact, the first time that the parliaments and the governments, legislatures of Russia and the U.S., pass an identical bill, perhaps even on the same day, because they are 8 hours ahead of us, that calls for the creation of a joint task force to work together on terrorism. Mr. Speaker, we thank our Russian friends for their condolences, we thank them for offering to allow our airplanes to use their airspace to assist us in intelligence, and we thank them for their support of our trip on the second leg of our journey to Rome. In Rome, Mr. Speaker, we traveled for 30, 40 minutes outside of town under heavy security to visit the King of Afghanistan living in exile. The king of Afghanistan was thrown out of that country in 1973. He has lived outside of Rome under heavy security since that time. We made a special visit to him to enlist his support in eventually returning to his native country to convene a cooperative effort with those leaders in the northern front, now called the Joint Task Force, or the Unified Front, to overturn the Taliban government, to remove Osama bin Laden, and to support the people of Afghanistan taking over their government. Our meeting with the King lasted for 90 minutes. It was extremely constructive.…”