Political Quotes

“Senator Corker asked a very good question, and I will answer it directly, as Senator Lieberman did. The resolution is not designed to authorize the use of force where anybody in the State Department administration could say, we have the green light to go into Iran from Congress. That is not what we are intending to do. We are intending to echo a policy statement made by President Obama that the policy of the United States will be--if you are listening in Tehran-- not to contain Iran if they obtain a nuclear capability. I want to lodge an objection to my own resolution by my colleague Rand Paul, who could not be here, so I am going to object on his behalf. He wants to strike two provisions of the resolution, although I don't think we can get there from here. But in response to Senator Corker, if he wanted to add a line into this resolution that it is not an authorization to use force, I will gladly do that so that nobody can mistake that. But here is what Senator Paul suggested to me. What if they get a nuclear weapon. You know, we don't want to contain them. That is our policy. But what if we wake up one day and they explode a bomb out in the desert and they have already got it? What would we do then? Does that mean we would go after their nuclear program or would we try to contain them? It means, from my point of view, we should go after their program. So we have a difference.…”