Political Quotes

“In summary, we have worked together on how to increase funding above the level in the underlying bill in a way that we know in part will be a first step of what has to be done with leadership by the United States in this global endeavor. I have been working over the last several days with the staff of the President of the United States, and I am delighted that sometime over the next several weeks--or next several days--a major initiative will be introduced by this administration addressing many of the issues that are the underlying reason for proceeding with this amendment. Again, I will leave it to the administration to talk about this new commitment that they will unveil shortly, a multiyear plan to bring substantial new resources to this effort. This is not the final word. The amendment offered tonight, whether it is the Helms-Frist amendment or the Durbin amendment, is not the final word on AIDS. We are going to be coming back to this again and again. This is not an easy problem. This is not an easy challenge. I am absolutely convinced, working in this body, working with the House in a bicameral, bipartisan way, which is represented tonight, with this administration, that we can pull the very best out of the United States of America and the global community in order to defeat this little tiny virus, a challenge and a fight that currently we have not quite been able to do.”