Political Quotes

“I mentioned last night the importance of this African Growth and Opportunity Act which we passed last night. In my comments, I also mentioned a restatement of my earlier comments in the day, a restatement of what has been said again and again on the floor. That is that we as a country and we as a world community need to focus attention on the Darfur region of Africa, of the Sudan in Africa. Africa is a huge continent and a lot of people do not realize how big Sudan is. It is huge. When we say Darfur region, the Darfur region is the western part of the Sudan. If you look at the continent, it is almost in the middle of the continent of Africa. The Darfur region is huge. It is about the size of Texas. Over the last year and a half, because it started as a civil war, militias fighting, government supporting the militias there, we have 2 million people in this region of Darfur, the size of Texas, who have been affected, 1.2 million people displaced, driven away from their homes, driven away from the land they might farm or, if they are herders, that they might herd animals on, families destroyed.”