Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I rise today because it had been my intention, and I appreciate the patience of the chairman for entertaining my consideration of an amendment which ultimately we withdrew, which talked about the total elimination of any and all funding from the U.S. taxpayers to the Palestinian Authority. That amendment was under consideration going back to early July, before we had some of the most recent and horrendous tragedies: the one on July 30, in which 150 people were injured, the tragedy of July 30, which we all are now only too familiar with, in which 13 people were killed, 150 were injured. Five Americans, Mr. Chairman, five Americans were killed in Israel at the hands of the Islamic terrorists and those who would bring Israel down. Just this morning, as our day was beginning here, we got the news of the tragedy at the Ben-Yehuda Pedestrian Mall in West Jerusalem. We know of at least one American from New Jersey that was killed in that horrendous attack, and this all is with the backdrop of the chairman of the PLO hugging and embracing what I would best describe as an international outlaw, the head of the Hamas terrorist group that is wreaking havoc in Israel.”