Political Quotes

“I joined the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Kelly) and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Engel) over the weekend. Our intent was to go to Kosovo because we were aware of the brutal violence that the Milosevic regime had imposed upon the Kosovo people. They went into villages and wiped out the village. The Interior Minister of Kosovo, who was acting under the orders of Mr. Milosevic, said that if there are even two terrorists opposed to our regime, we consider the entire village opposed and are justified in eliminating it. They killed 87 people, innocent men, women, children. They lined them up. Many of them they only killed after torturing them. These people were not a threat. Virtually all of them were unarmed. They wiped them out because they were afraid that they might at some point pose a threat to their regime. Why would it be a threat? Kosovo is a country of 2.2 million people. About 2 million of them are Albanian Muslims. A little less than 10 percent of the population is Serbian. Many of those Serbs have been sent there by Mr. Milosevic, who is the head of the Serbian government, that now calls itself the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, sent to populate Kosovo. Most of the Serbs there did not want to be there. Some of them had been driven out by Croatians, out of the Krajina region in Croatia, but the reality is that the vast majority of the Kosovo people want to have their own representation.”