Political Quotes

“I want to discuss an encouraging development that most Americans have had no reason, at least initially, to pay attention to. That is what has happened in a country on another continent, the country being Sudan. This week, several days ago, we received word that the civil war that has raged there for 20 years and has claimed over 2 million lives, lives lost as a product of this civil war, a war that has caused over 5 million families to leave their homes, to be displaced from their homes and have to move to another part of the country--that civil war may be one step closer to ending. On Tuesday evening the Sudanese rebels and the Khartoum Government reached an agreement on the position and size of their respective armed forces. A formal agreement, since that time, has been signed. This agreement includes three significant breakthroughs: A substantial withdrawal of government forces from the southern region of the country; redeployment of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, the SPLA, forces in Khartoum, and third, the formation of an integrated force in the southern Blue Nile region and the Nuba Mountains. What this typically means is that units are integrated to include troops from each side. That way, each side acts as a check, a check and a balance on each other.”