Political Quotes

“I say to my very good and longtime friend, we have known each other since the closing months of the war in Vietnam when I was Secretary and he was serving in our naval service and returned. So I just think sometimes of the great fortune of this body to have men such as John McCain, Daniel Inouye, and Ted Stevens, and others, who have experience firsthand. I do not claim that same experience that these men had in the mortal combat of the wars. Senator McCain recounts the history of our Nation very accurately; that is, when the conflicts are over, it has always been the stature and the greatness of this Nation to bind the wounds of war and to move forward with peace. I say to the Senator from Florida, I have just handed him the corrections that are now in the press, corrected by the national security adviser to the new Prime Minister of Iraq, in which it is very explicit that there was an error in translation. Some misfortune. But he sets it forth here with absolute clarity, and I think that I would want to state for my colleagues exactly what he said. He said the following--and he said it, I presume, with the full knowledge of the Prime Minister. He said: We thank--and the quote is--``the American wives and American women and American mothers for the treasure and the blood they have invested in this country . . . of liberating 30 million people in this country.…”