Political Quotes

“I am pleased to join the other five Senators who are the original cosponsors of this particular amendment/sense-of-the-Senate resolution. I join in the gravity that they have already expressed and underlined about the situation that exists now in Cambodia. All of us have spent time in the region. Many of us have spent time in Cambodia dealing with the principal figures that are involved in this particular incident. I myself have visited Phnom Penh on a number of occasions. I have met in Cambodia with First Prime Minister Ranariddh, as well as Co- or Second Prime Minister Hun Sen on a number of occasions there and on at least one occasion here. I am familiar with the difficulties. I watched the process evolve. I observed the time period when the United Nations forces were there helping to try to restore a semblance of stability and to try to develop some respect for the rule of law. We saw elections. Ninety percent of the people in Cambodia voted in those elections. We know the difficulties that existed from the very outset. As my colleagues who fought in Vietnam have already suggested, we have a clash of leadership. Co-Premier Hun Sen is a strong and forceful leader. All of us who have met with him understand that. This, in effect, internationally is an appeal for him to understand that the United States cannot abide the conduct that he has been associated with or that has been carried out in his name in the last few days.”