Dana Rohrabacher

Well, thank you very much. This has been very fascinating for me to listen to your tales of woe, and they are tales of woe, and I sympathize, and I know all Americans sympathize with the little guy who is being oppressed by the big guy.

Human rights also means when someone owns a piece of property... for that land to be taken away, for that property to be taken away is a violation.

There are many problems in Vietnam, for example, where we don't have political freedom, and economic freedom is basically based on cronyism with the ruling elite, with the ruling political elite, and you have now an economic elite.

Who ended up with the land there, what you were talking about, Mr. Rogers, in Boeung Kak Lake?

We will prove it by making sure that people in these countries where they are oppressed get the message that we are on their side.

When we start taking over the actual obligations of the dictatorship to take care of its people, like in responding to infectious diseases, I think we are actually bolstering the dictatorship itself.

We supposedly, as Americans, hold freedom and the rights of human beings to be our number-one value.

There will be no prosperity.

If you do not have a title, as Mr. Royce pointed out, there is no collateral.

We have a major problem with eminent domain abuse in our country.

We are now approving or we're involved with approving and putting into place nuclear reactors that are based on 65-year-old technology.

Bureaucracy is the most effective method known to man of turning pure energy into solid waste.

I think it's outrageous then that we are approving any new light-water reactors.

How long does a--when you approve a nuclear power plant like you've been taking about, how long is that actually functioning?

Light-water reactors are 65 years old, and they're dangerous.

There's something wrong with our system.

There's a fly in the ointment here. There's a roadblock there somewhere.

I would hope that we can try to restructure, that we have some positive things that we can come up with today

We have had many hearings about it. And, Mr. Secretary, let me note that while you are receiving quite a grueling today, let us note that we appreciate the hard work that you and others in the administration are making.

But you have been conferring--but you are conferring with their oppressors instead.

I am afraid that this treaty that you are talking about today and you are promoting will do just the opposite then what we saw succeeded, and that it is it will actually empower the mullahs.

The ones I regret the most were, number one, following George W. Bush into Iraq and just taking his word about they were having a nuclear program in Iraq, which was, I believe, a fraudulent claim.

So we would expect both our technical designs and also our actual machinery to be sent, available to China, as a result of this agreement?

The other thing that I regret, however, the most that I regret, is that when I was talked into agreeing that American satellites could be launched on Chinese rockets.

I think that is absolutely absurd for us to be shipping things like that to China or building them here when we have the capabilities of moving on to a new generation of nuclear reactors that don't have that problem.