Political Quotes

“Well, let me try to answer that. Senator Menendez and a group of us--Senators Lieberman and Casey and Hoeven and myself--did the resolution in question today to echo the President's statement that we are not going to have containment as a policy. There are some people--even Republicans, I might add, some very prominent Republicans--who believe you could contain a nuclear-armed Iran if you told them: If you ever use a nuclear weapon, we would wipe you off the face of the Earth. President Clinton gave a very good answer to that situation. He said that the biggest fear he has is not that the Iranians would put a nuclear weapon on the top of a missile and hit Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv. That is a concern. His biggest fear is that they would share the technology with a terrorist organization. So that is why you can't ever let them get this capability. So the resolution is basically echoing the statement of the President that containment is not an option. And it has 78 cosponsors. Senator Paul has the right to object, and he did. I don't think we can get there from here. I think he has a different view of what we are trying to do--honestly held, a good man, just an honest difference of opinion. Back to the sanctions bill. Senator Menendez did a great job, as he always does on things like this. The reason I found out about this and got so concerned is that section 603 is something that wasn't in the base bill.…”