Political Quotes

“The Senator from Arizona is absolutely right. Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, if I could interrupt to ask unanimous consent that the article entitled ``Russia's Aggression Is a Challenge to World Order'' by Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman, dated August 26, 2008, be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: [From the Wall Street Journal, Aug. 26, 2008] Russia's Aggression Is a Challenge to World Order (By Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman) In the wake of Russia's invasion of Georgia, the United States and its trans-Atlantic allies have rightly focused on two urgent and immediate tasks: getting Russian soldiers out, and humanitarian aid in. But having just returned from Georgia, Ukraine and Poland, where we met with leaders of these countries, we believe it is imperative for the West to look beyond the day-to-day management of this crisis. The longer-term strategic consequences, some of which are already being felt far beyond the Caucasus, have to be addressed. Russia's aggression is not just a threat to a tiny democracy on the edge of Europe. It is a challenge to the political order and values at the heart of the continent. For more than 60 years, from World War II through the Cold War to our intervention in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the U.S. has fostered and fought for the creation of a Europe that is whole, free and at peace.…”