Sounds like a modern Democrat. John Kerry or Joe Biden.
"Notwithstanding their intelligence, and earnest solicitude for the good of their country, this system {The Articles of Confederation} proved totally inadequate to the purpose for which it was devised. But, sir, this was no disgrace to them. The subject of confederations was then new, and the necessity of speedily forming some government for the states, to defend them against the pressing dangers, prevented, perhaps, those able statesmen from making that system as perfect as more leisure and deliberation might have enabled them to do. I cannot otherwise conceive how they could have formed a system that provided no means of enforcing the powers which were nominally given it. Was it not a political farce to pretend to vest powers, without accompanying them with the means of putting them in execution? This want of energy was not a greater solecism than the blending together, and vesting in one body, all the branches of government."
"The utter inefficacy of this system was discovered, the moment the danger was over, by the introduction of peace"
Kinda sums it up.