Political Quotes

“It seems to me--and this is the predicate for my second question--many of us are uncomfortable with some of the sanctions that we have automatically initiated. I personally have some concern about the sanctions on India and Pakistan, for example, notwithstanding the objection, of course, to what they did. The question has been asked: If not sanctions, then what? I remember when I was in the House of Representatives asking the question of the then-Secretary of Defense, what kind of foreign policy options do we have diplomatically, economically, militarily, and so on, if we are not going to invoke sanctions, trying to affect policies in other countries that we have deep disagreement with, including the kind of policies the Senator from Arkansas was talking about. One of his answers was that there are literally hundreds of decisions each week that are made by various Departments of the U.S. Government, as well as private entities, that have some impact on our relationships with another country. One of the things I recall having been mentioned was visa policy, for example. Now, the Chinese Government appears to be using the granting or denial of visas to make points with respect to their foreign policy.”