Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I return the compliment to Senator McConnell from Kentucky, the Republican leader. I have been here now since 2002. There is no better friend of the State of Israel than Mitch McConnell. He is the former chairman and ranking member of the foreign ops subcommittee on appropriations that deals with aid to the world--particularly Israel--and it was his idea to come to the floor today and have voices speak in support of Israel at a time when they need friends. Friends are great to have. They are wonderful in good times. They are a necessity in bad times. Israel is going through some pretty bad times and so are the Palestinian people. I wish to clearly make myself known. I have nothing against the legitimate hopes and aspirations of the Palestinian people to have their own country, to live in peace and prosperity by Israel. But they have to want it more than I do. The Palestinian people are suffering. Children are being killed, and the most innocent people on the planet are children. It breaks all of our hearts to see them as a casualty of war. But now is the time to be clear-eyed and focused as to what the problem really is. The problem is very simple in many ways. Hamas is a terrorist organization in the eyes of the U.S. Government. Hamas should be a terrorist organization in the eyes of any decent person in the world. What did they do?…”