Political Quotes

“I wish to add my voice to the President's decision to act, because I think action by the United States and the international community is required. What does it matter to the average American that we contain this war in Syria and that it ends sooner rather than later? As to chemical weapons that have now been acknowledged to be used by Asad against his own people, my goal is to make sure they are not used against us, Israel, or our allies throughout the world. If we don't stop this war, the chemical weapons caches--numbers in the hundreds of thousands of weapons--could be used to be deployed to kill thousands of Americans or Israelis or people who are aligned with us. The President's decision to intervene comes from an escalation of the use of chemical weapons by Asad. As Senator McCain has indicated, the threats to our country are not just from the chemical weapons but from a regional deterioration. I say to the sitting President of the Senate today, we were in Jordan. The Jordanian Government has to accommodate over 550,000 Syrian refugees. Sixty thousand Syrian children are attending Jordanian schools. The economy in Jordan is about to collapse. If we lose the King of Jordan, we have lost one of the last moderate voices in the Middle East. This war has a ripple effect. It is affecting Turkey; it is affecting Iraq. Radical Islamists are flowing in on the Sunni side and Shia side.…”