Political Quotes

“Is the gentleman aware that there have been numerous people who have thrown out the phrase that Israel--many of our friends, by the way--that Israel has a right to defend itself. I mean, we hear this regularly. Would the gentleman agree that Israel has more than a right to defend itself, but rather a duty and, in fact, a responsibility to defend itself, defend the people of Israel, and to stand strong as what you just described, the greatest democracy in the Middle East with a plurality of individuals in that country who respect freedom and democracy in a multiethnic population even as we are, as a result, I believe, of the previous administration, experiencing a renaissance in the Middle East, potential peace. We are seeing the response to that here, if the gentleman would agree.”