Political Quotes

“it is clearly an endorsement of the present legislation by one of our most revered and respected former Senators, whose wartime record and whose record in many other endeavors places absolutely no question about his knowledge and background to make such an important contribution as embraced in that article. Likewise, Mr. President, appearing in today's Washington Post under the byline of Jim Hoagland, an article entitled ``Foreign Policy by Impulse.'' The U.S. Senate is moving in haste toward a climactic vote on NATO expansion, a foreign policy initiative that defines the Clinton administration's approach to the world as one of strategic promiscuity and impulse. The Senate should not join in that approach. Foreign policy is the grand abstraction of American presidents. They strive to bargain big, or not at all, on the world stage. They feel more free there than they do at home to dream, to emote, to rise or fall on principled positions, or to stab others in the back at a time of their choosing.”