Political Quotes

“I appreciate the thoughts of my friend from Illinois. With much of what he said, I, obviously, agree. My father came from Poland as a matter of fact. I think, maybe, the difference of opinion that we have has something to do with what we don't talk about very often openly but that, I think, everybody knows exists. I mentioned--and I think you will not disagree with me--that, over the last many, many decades, the United States has overthrown governments throughout Latin America, Central America, and the Caribbean. There is no denying that we almost went to a nuclear war in 1962 under the Kennedy administration, which felt--and probably correctly--that Soviet missiles in Cuba, 90 miles away from us, were a threat to this country and not to be tolerated. So I would only ask my friend from Illinois to put himself into the mindset of the Russians in that nobody here--not I, certainly--is ever talking about reclaiming other countries. You mentioned that, and it is certainly not anything that I support.…”