Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the Russian assault on Ukraine continues unabated. Each morning seems to bring a fresh horror. In the last few days alone, we have seen the Russians bomb an arts school where as many as 400 civilians had taken cover. We have seen the bombing of a theater where an estimated 1,300 women and children and the elderly were sheltered--not a military target, a theater providing shelter to civilians, to children--a theater that was clearly labeled with the word ``children.'' That is right. On the pavement outside, in large white letters, visible in satellite images, was the word ``children'' written in Russian. So it is pretty impossible that the Russians didn't know what or who they were bombing. But they bombed anyway. And this is just one example of the depravity of the Russian siege of Mariupol, which has largely destroyed this port city. Residents in Mariupol are without electricity, without running water, at times without food. As important as words are, they fail when it comes to describing the horrors that Ukrainians are experiencing, the inferno that so many of them now exist in on a daily basis. As we go about our lives in peace and security, most of us have no notion of what it means to live where air raid sirens have become commonplace, where bombed-out buildings line the streets you used to walk on, where crossing a road or leaving a building at the wrong moment can mean your death.…”