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Important. Security Council Resolution is only as strong as the nation states who back it and their willingness to see it through. You know, yesterday and i want to move this question now to assad and putins relationship with assad. Yesterday made a comment, and i quote, refugees undoubtedly need our compassion and support. The only way to resolve the problem is to restore statehood. My question, and ill start with dr. Gavinaw, can we solve this problem as long as assad is barrel bombing his own...

In the bucket that compares to the challenge that is likely to come. Am i wrong . Is that a strategy thats the wrong way to go about it . Im not sure you would get a majority of votes in this body for it. I think the vote we had about using military force against the use of chemical weapons against civilians barely got a majority in this committee and likely will not get a majority in the senate or in the house. Still if the administration were to advocate strongly for it, there is some bipartis...

Always humane, just and fraternal. We need to avoid a common temptation nowadays, to discard whatever proves troublesome. Let us remember the golden rule, do unto others as you would [ applause ] do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This rule points us in a clear direction. Let us treat others with the same passion and compassion with which we want to be treated. Let us seek for others the same possibilities which we seek for ourselves. Let us help others to grow, as we would like ...

When you look at people who suffer torture and the sort of criteria the u. S. Uses, i think you already have a filter that is then deepened by the work of homeland security. So i think there is certainly the technique and the capacity. For syrians, i do understand it will take sometime to reach the numbers because i was told that the intel that the government has on the syrians is not as good as the one it had on the iraqis, et cetera. So there are genuine difficulties that will have to be overc...

Mediterranean. There are 7. 6 million internally displaced syrians suffering and into need of humanitarian assistance. More families are forced to send their children to work or marry off their young daughters. It is hard to comprehend the millions of refugees on lebanon, jordan, and turkey. The number of refugees in lebanon would be equivalent to the United States receiving 88 million new refugees. Thats a shocking number for that country. Turkey has already spent 6 billion in direct assistance...

Man with a microphone is reading a bible to the crowd. The new africanamerican history and Cultural Museum going up in washington. Just some of the sights out on the streets of washington. The son of anas immigrant family, i am happy to be a guest in this country. One from over saying the the pope speaks english and does so better than trump woror palin. We tend to view everything through the prism of a transient popularity or politics, who is awful who is down, who is up or who is down. Differe...

Dreams which lead to action, to participation, to commitment. Reams which awaken what is deepest and truest in the life of a people. In recent centuries, millions of eople came to this land to pursue their dream of building a future in freedom. We, the people of this continent, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us because most of us were once oreigners. Say this to you as the son of immigrants, knowing that so many of you are also descended from mmigrants. Tragically, the rights of ...

Inaudible] delivering the firstever papal address to a joint meeting of congress, pope francis urged compassion for the poor, immigrants, and refugees. Washington, d. C. Was the first stop on his threecity tour of the United States. Sergeant at arms mr. Speaker, he pope of the holy see. The speaker members of congress, i have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you, pope francis of the holy see. [applause] pope francis mr. Vice president , mr. Speaker, all the members of congr...

Important, i cannot fail to mention the servant of god dorothy day, who founded the catholic worker movement. Her social activism, her passion for justice and for the cause of the oppressed, were inspired by the gospel, her faith, and the example of the saints. How much progress has been made in this area in so many parts of the world. How much has been done in these first years of the Third Millennium to raise people out of extreme poverty. I know that you share my conviction that much more sti...

Politics is instead an expression of our compelling need to live as one in order to build as one the greatest common good, that of community which sacrifices particular interest in order to share injustice and peace, its goods, its interests, its social ife. I do not underestimate the difficulty that this involves. But i encourage you in this ffort. Ere too i think of the march which Martin Luther king led from selma to montgomery fifty years ago as part of the campaign to fulfill his dream of f...