Political Quotes

“I regret we are on different sides. As I listened very carefully to the speech, the theme time and time again was, our allies, our allies. And that is important. Senator Byrd yesterday recounted the history from World War I and World War II. Time and time again, we have always been in partnership with the allies for that portion of Europe. We will do so in the future. We have 100,000 in NATO. Time and time again, I get the feeling that people who are trying to strike this provision have no confidence in the ability of the Congress of the United States, acting at the direction and request of the next President, to make a proper decision for national security. Those who select a vote to take this out, think about your constituency: $2 billion of taxpayers' money expended on Kosovo; yet there is no conclusion as to how this is going to be spent over the years, how long we will be there. What we are trying to do is put some discipline in the Congress of the United States to assume its responsibilities and to involve itself in a coequal way with the President of the United States.”