Political Quotes

“I know we are going to have a vote in a second, but we will end our thoughts. The reason 3,000 Americans were killed on 9/11 and not 3 million is that the terrorist groups that wish us harm could not find capabilities beyond the airplanes. They are trying. They are trying to get weapons of mass destruction, chemical weapons, highly enriched uranium, fissile material. My fear is that if a regime such as Iran is given the capability to enrich, it will become a North Korea where they break out. I will not turn the fate of the United States over, with my vote, to a bunch of U.N. inspectors--where the only hope of a breakout is a bunch of U.N. inspectors. The whole real goal for me is to have a capability that is very small, face-saving in nature, that can't lead to a breakout. Don't have something robust that can lead to a breakout and expect the U.N. to protect us because they can't. They didn't do it in North Korea. At the end of the day I think the decision we are going to make as a nation--through our President--hopefully with direction and input, will be the biggest decision we have made as a nation on the foreign policy front in decades, because, if we get this wrong, if we allow the Iranian ayatollah to achieve a new nuclear capability, every Sunni Arab is going to want like capability, and we are on the road to Armageddon. Look at the Middle East and ask yourselves: Is this a good place to give people nuclear capability? Would they use it?…”