Political Quotes

“This issue of America's involvement in the Balkans has given me more difficulty than any public policy issue I have ever been called upon to address. I must tell my colleagues that I have no satisfaction whatsoever in the manner in which the Congress of the United States has dealt with that terrible issue and the way we have performed consistent with what I would regard, if not our constitutional duty, the duty of common sense and of good public policy. We have, basically, from the beginning sought to insulate ourselves from what was going on. I have a strong point of view that this administration stumbled and bumbled through incredible ineptness in their execution of policy that got us into the mess we are in. But once we were in that mess, I have never understood the unwillingness of the Congress to confront the fact that we are there and our forces were engaged. And being engaged, we ought to either say, bring them home, or we ought to have supported them by a resolution authorizing them to be there and allowing such forces as were necessary to accomplish goals that we established as being valid goals.”