Political Quotes

“let me point out to this body that the State Department has been urged by this Congress to sell this property for 10 years, and from 1990 to 1995 they only sold about $150 million worth of property. The biggest piece of property that they sold, which was a $49 million piece of property in Singapore, they only sold because the Singapore government needed it for a road and actually condemned that land and compelled that sale. A $49 million piece of property in Singapore that our embassy did not need. A residence costing $92 million in Japan, which we are using as a residence for one of our mission members over there. Ninety-two million. How do we say to the American people that we are housing some of our foreign operations people, that we are using a $92 million piece of property to house someone in the foreign ministry, yet we turn down requests for $10 million and $20 million here? The GAO said in that case that for $4 million, well, they actually said that they could convert property they already had for a residence for this gentleman, and yet he is still there. I would just simply say to the gentleman from New Jersey, and I identify with what he is saying, but I think what I am saying, and in Jerry McGuire's words, to the American people, either show me the money, show me the savings, or start another panel or start another committee or study this thing a little more.”