Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, this month, like thousands of proud parents from around the country, I attended the graduation ceremonies for my two daughters, one an educator, one a physician. As I watched my oldest prepare to return to our hometown with her physician husband, both of them to care for people there, I was mindful of the guidance given to doctors from as far back as we can remember: ``First, do no harm.'' I think that the Administration and supporters of this bill would do well to heed this cornerstone of medicine as they continue to pursue an insular defense policy--without the agreement of many of our allies, and without truly the consent of this Congress. This misguided policy emphasizes nuclear missile defense from space and abandons the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which has played such an important role in keeping nuclear Armageddon at bay. The Administration has also abandoned the wisdom, extensive writing, and testimony of Dr. Steven Weinberg, a Nobel-Prize-winning physicist at the University of Texas at Austin, who concludes that this system will ``harm our security,'' not strengthen it. There is no shortage of reasons why a space-based ``Star Wars'' sequel is undesirable. It targets too many of our resources toward the least likely threat.”