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The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

- Jim Webb
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Throughout the world, our insistence on individual freedom and opportunity has been at the bottom of what people think when they hear the very word 'American.'

I am a junior senator, ninety-fifth on the seniority list, and so by Senate standards, my office in the Russell Senate Office Building is less than splendid.

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.

I know of no scholar more dedicated to bringing a thorough and accurate portrayal of America's involvement in Vietnam than Mark Moyar. Everyone who is interested in a full picture of that oft-misunderstood war should be grateful for his effort.

I just like the people and the culture of Southeast Asia.

It's hard for me to think about this, but I first went to Southeast Asia as a Marine more than 40 years ago, as a young Marine. I was on Okinawa and then in Vietnam. I've returned in many different hats, which I think has helped me to form my own views about policy out there. I've spent a good bit of time in this region as a journalist.

The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, and one man killed in action.

History shows that you can't - you can't have security in Southeast Asia without security in Northeast Asia. It's just the reality.

I was counsel on the full veterans committee, the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full-committee counsel in Congress. It stunned me that there was a 600,000-case backlog of claims. During my time in the Senate, it became 900,000.

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The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.