Barbara Lee

“Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.”

“War is not the answer. We must find other ways to solve international disputes.”

“Real security is not the presence of weapons but the absence of fear.”

“We must be as outraged about the effects of global warming as we are about terrorism.”

“My moral compass, my conscience, and my constituents all tell me that military force is not the answer.”

“An all-out war on terrorism will not make us safer. It will make us more vulnerable.”

“We need a foreign policy that is not defined by war, but by diplomacy, development, and democracy.”

“My constituents expect me to be a leader and to exercise my own judgment.”

“Let us not become the evil we deplore.”

“I have to be a warrior for peace.”

“There must be some of us who are unwilling to expand the president's authority to engage in an open-ended war with no exit strategy.”

“Some of us must urge the use of restraint. Our country is in a state of mourning. Some of us must say, let's step back for a moment and think through the implications of our actions today, so that this does not spiral out of control.”