Political Quotes

I think if the administration had properly put the issue before the Congress, the likelihood is that it would have been supported.

If the government is so repressive that it deliberately kills its own people--that is the standard where you say that government no longer has validity--then it does not matter how powerful that government is.

the rigid nature of the administrative recognition process has been a source of delay, frustration and a lingering sense of unfairness.

If we stand for anything as a country, then we would have an obligation to declare those sorts of acts of a magnitude that we would not recognize the validity of that government.