Political Quotes

“One of the unanimous consent requests I will propound shortly has to do with one of the most significant humanitarian crises of recent years--and most people would say it is the most dramatic humanitarian global crisis of today--the atrocities that are occurring in Sudan, in the Darfur region of Sudan, which is a region in western Sudan which is about the size of France. Sudan is a huge country, and this whole Darfur region since a year before last February has been the geographic location where 30,000 to 50,000 people have died, with another 1.4 million and maybe as high as 1.7 million people displaced from their homes--action that we condemned on the floor of the Senate, and the House did likewise, at the end of July before our recess, and designating in the most dramatic terms that this is genocide. Unfortunately, not a lot has happened on the ground that is constructive since that point in time. Thirty days passed and a United Nations determination on what was going on didn't have very much teeth to it, and the Government in Khartoum of Sudan simply hasn't responded. Thus these atrocities--the rape, the pillaging, the murder, the total destruction of the villages--have continued. It is important that the United Nations continue to act and address this issue.”