Political Quotes

“should the Congress, in the words of the McCain resolution, authorize the President ``to use all necessary force'' to accomplish U.S. objectives in Yugoslavia? That is the question upon which we will be voting shortly. In order to answer that question, however, we must, it seems to me, first deal with two prerequisites and vital questions. First, what are our American objectives in Yugoslavia? And are they so vital to our national interest as to warrant a full-scale war? Second, do we have a sufficient degree of confidence in the quality of our Presidential leadership to give the President unlimited and unrequested authority to pursue those objectives? In connection with that first question, our American objectives, we are now engaged in an experiment, a venture, that is an entirely new function for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization--not defensive in nature, but reaching outside of its own borders to attempt to settle one among many ethnic and religious conflicts around the world. In my view, at the time at which we began this adventure, it was clearly not a vital interest to the United States of America.…”