Political Quotes

“This is a serious matter, we all know that. But the fact is, I think a lot of us are questioning the timing of this. I was in Bosnia last year with the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Ike Skelton) and others. Those people were so appreciative of the United States, knowing that the United States is the one and only superpower in the world. We also know that we do not want to be the Big Brother in the world, as well. But we also realize that we have a responsibility. We also know that that is where World War I started, was in the Balkan area. We have to ask ourselves the question, how can we help? How can we be supportive, knowing that whatever we do it is not going to be just a unilateral effort, it is going to be a number of other countries in concert with the United States agreeing on a peace plan? The atrocities over there are horrendous, how peoples' lives have been destroyed, their homes are being destroyed, the looting. It was an orchestrated conspiracy, and Milosevic, operating in Belfast, is going to look at all of the things we are doing or not doing.”