The hypocrisy factor has encouraged copycat techniques around the world by people who do like the United States does and has also weakened the United States as one of the traditional important supporters of human rights.

The moral authority of the United States depends on its working effectively with other countries to advance human rights protection ? not blocking a consensus proposal that makes so much progress for human rights. The current resolution can be made to work if the United States joins with other democracies to establish the new council and make it function effectively.

Namely, that our investigation was authorized by the attorney general of the United States, and that the Justice Department had the information that we had with respect to serious possible federal offenses,

The United States is virtually the only nation in the world where so many people from so many parts of the world and so many faiths live together in peace and understanding, and we cannot reward these criminals who committed these acts with allowing the seeds of discord to sprout in the United States.

The United States military, because of people like you, can do things for a troubled world that no one else can do. And I am profoundly grateful,

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.