March 18, 2004 - "I was struck last week, as we all were, by the terrible depth of the tragedy in Spain when hundreds were killed by brutal thugs. But I must say I was also struck at the relative lack of attention to the deaths of 10 people in Israel who were also killed by terrorists. . .

". . .[N]o one who understands democracy, no one who has seen the way we have reacted, the way Spain has reacted, the way other democracies have reacted, should feel that you can put pressure on Israel without taking into account the context of repeated murder in which they are asked to operate."

May 2002 - "Obviously the Saudi Arabian regime has one of the worst records in the world with regard to human rights. Their lack of democracy, their absolute religious intolerance, their degrading mistreatment of women, all of these are troubling. . .

"I cannot think of anything more appalling than the fact that we send American military personnel to that country primarily these days to protect that country and allow them to be subjected to a form of abusive treatment that we would not tolerate for a minute anywhere else. I salute the American military officer who said that she was not going to take it anymore.