Political Quotes

“tonight at 6 o'clock at Freedom Plaza at 13th and Pennsylvania, a number of area religious leaders will gather in a prayer vigil for peace. This afternoon, several of the victims from 9/11 will be here to affirm that they think peace is the better course, particularly since there has been a total inability of the Administration to connect the terrorist events of 9/11 with Iraq. I believe that Americans must pray and must petition their elected representatives here in the Congress to be more than a speed bump on the fast track to war in Iraq, a war that will take thousands of lives, a war that will take hundreds of billions of dollars from American taxpayers. Now is the time to speak out and speak out firmly in favor of the security of our country and our families, and doing it in a constructive and reasonable way, not by launching a war against a despot in Iraq.”