Political Quotes

“I commend those sponsors of the bill who brought this piece of legislation to the floor. And I rise to recount a story that I was told in August when I was in Israel with several of our colleagues. We visited a young family who was then living in Sderot. And the mother told a story about the pain that her children are living through and about the requirement that her kids now understand that wherever they go throughout their day, they must first know where the safe room is because they will know ultimately that rocket will sound and the kids will have to scurry to safety. But what touched me the most about the story of this young family was the mother, again, explained how 2 years ago they uprooted their family from Gush Katif, a community in the south of Gaza when Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip. And it was then that her children asked her, why, Mother? Why do we have to do this? And she explained to the children that they have to do this to give peace a chance so that they and the people of Israel could live in peace and live a normal life. And now where are they? Clearly, a contagion of fear has spread across their community. But they should ask, what is it that they've done wrong to live under these kind of conditions? And frankly, whatever conclusion the world comes to, we know now that the only crime they've committed is trying to live in freedom in a Jewish state.”