Political Quotes

“I was privileged 2 days ago to join on the floor with my esteemed colleague, Senator Lieberman of Connecticut, and Senator Bayh and Senator McCain when the four of us introduced the resolution which is the pending resolution before the body. We came together as a foursome, sort of, under the following circumstances. Senator Lieberman and I, in 1991, were the principal cosponsors of the resolution which authorized President George Herbert Walker Bush to institute the use of force with the U.S. men and women in uniform together with numbers of uniformed individuals from the coalition that he, President Bush, had put together in the fall of 1990 and early 1991. I had talked with Senators Lieberman and McCain about this forthcoming resolution, which our President requested. I happened to be among the Senate leadership in the Cabinet Room when he spoke to us about a month or so ago indicating he would want the Congress to provide a resolution, given the growing crisis that the world faces with Saddam Hussein and his threatened use of weapons of mass destruction.”