Dana Rohrabacher

So this Ring of Fire that we are talking about, does that mean that all the countries that are around that edge of the Pacific are at the maximum risk in the world of having quakes?

I will be working with my Science Committee colleagues to introduce a bill in the House very soon for this reauthorization.

Our efforts should be, instead of providing warning, we should focus on what comes next to make sure that, number one, beforehand we are prepared; number two, what do we do after the earthquake has come to mitigate that.

I have been very concerned that we have nuclear energy facilities that, in an earthquake--I mean, look at what happened in Japan.

Do you think that our current nuclear power plants can withstand a 7.5 earthquake and not leak radioactivity?

That, I believe, was one of the most damaging actions or inaction that I have ever seen taken place in my lifetime.

I would welcome that with as many of you as I can.

I mentioned earlier how Herbert Walker Bush had launched us in the wrong direction by his inaction at Tiananmen Square and how that has to be looked at as one of the great, I would say, cowardly acts that has resulted by a U.S…

It has been a relationship since that time that has sometimes been dubbed as an economic blood transfusion from West to East.

I say to my European colleagues that protection is not protectionism.

We are dealing with a government that has never reformed at all.

Ronald Reagan would have gotten on the phone the day before and said to whoever was the head of the government...don't send them in--or no more credit, no more investment--no more American open door to economic interaction between our…

Let's not shoot ourselves in the foot by alienating our closest allies and partners. Doing so only plays into the hands of Moscow and Beijing.

Let me just note that it's the WTO that has--when we talk about the emergence of China and Chinese power, we are not talking about the power of Chinese people. We are talking about the Chinese elite dictatorship, this clique that rules…

I think it's very possible that this--his--what he's doing with ZTE may be part of a bigger scheme that he's trying to actually accomplish, and I won't be criticizing him until we see if that's the case.

In China, there has been no political reform. Zero.

The difference between a state-owned company and the People's Liberation Army owned companies is that the guy over here doesn't have a uniform on.

new technologies and new medicines are really elongated in the process for us to use them

Iran is not our enemy. The mullah regime in Iran is our enemy.

I would suggest that it is sinful that we do not permit our veterans that option.

We're spending $3 billion a year. How much are our partners spending?

So the total cost is more like $4.5-5 billion a year rather than $3 billion a year?

I believe that we have lots of challenges that we need--I've been trying to always remind people that we could see an asteroid heading toward the Earth, and we need to be able to deflect something like that threat.

So we just say, those of us who were here and involved in this project, 'well, it was worthwhile, it's run its course, time to leave it behind?'

those of us who don't believe that we should be expanding the control of the government over our lives and that people should actually have more decisions rather than less