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Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

If there's a clear genocide somewhere, don't we really want to positively impact that kind of a situation? Isn't that what we're all about? Isn't that what we've always been about?

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.

Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.

You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.

Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.