Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague. I remember so well when the Senator brought this up last year. This is a serious effort by one of the most serious, conscientious Senators with whom I have ever been privileged to serve and one for whom I have the highest personal and professional regard. As I said some months ago, this Senator, too, will miss him. We are not trying to abridge, so to speak, the right of President Clinton. He is the President of the United States. Until the last day, the last hour, the last minute of his term of office, he is entitled to exercise the powers given to him under the Constitution. As the Senator knows so well, being a student of foreign and international affairs, the Constitution designates the President of the United States as that individual who is our chief foreign policy advisor, negotiator, the home realm authority that goes with the Presidency. I don't wish to be critical, but I will be factual. The President simply did not, in the course of his administration, avail himself of the opportunity to do the indepth type of study that I and other colleagues think is necessary before any decision of the type the Senator describes be made.”