"A negative security assurance, with all due respect to the Executive Branch of Government, is pretty meaningless without it being a treaty."
"Under American law the only legitimate trade is food and medicine."
"What measures and secondary sanctions can we adopt here in Congress to convince our European and Asian friends to withhold these non-lethal exports, particularly spare parts?"
"What if we were to go further and say no company in the world could get a Federal or state contract if they sold anything to Iran other than food or medicine?"
"We should be putting these companies to a fundamental choice between doing business in Iran and doing business in the United States."
"You would think that having gone from the largest trade surplus in the history of mammalian life to going to largest trade deficit, the elites of this country would understand that we are getting some..."
"The last convoys need to leave Camp Ashraf for Camp Hurriya. Camp Ashraf should be closed."
"It would be extremely difficult for the immigration minister of any democracy to admit any person from this camp while the organization is designated by the great United States as a foreign terrorist ..."
"The real issue was that it was effective."
"If we had balanced trade with China, our unemployment rate would be under 5 percent and the cost of containing China's aggressiveness in its region would be far less."
"You need a unifying ideology to keep an elite, and an entire society together."
"I don't think that is the strategy we would want to employ, as noble as that goal is."