Political Quotes

“I wish to speak about the pending business before the Senate. Of all the things we will do, probably in our political lifetime, I can't think of anything more important than getting the Iran nuclear ambitions right. I stand in two camps. I would love a good deal, and a bad deal would be a nightmare. What is a bad deal? A bad deal would be one that would result in a North Korean outcome, where you lock in a capacity in the hands of the Iranians to be monitored by the international community. And one day they break out, you wake up, and you have a bomb. A bad deal would be too much capacity in the hands of the Iranians. That would spook the Sunni Arabs who want to go buy a bomb of their own. I cannot tell you the consequences to the world and to our Nation if you have a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. That is what a bad deal leads to. A good deal allows us to wind down a hotly contested dispute between Iran and the world over the last 20 years without firing a shot. A good deal would be allowing the Iranians a peaceful nuclear power program, what they claim they want, with no real capability in a year--or any time--to make a bomb. If all they want is a peaceful nuclear power program, I do not object. I do object to the capability to enrich the uranium in a fashion that one day they could break out, as North Korea did--because I don't trust the Iranians. So to Senator Cardin and to Senator Corker, you have navigated this very well.…”