Dana Rohrabacher

Whatever we do should not in any way strengthen the dictators' hands around the necks of the people of Vietnam.

People in South Vietnam still, in their hearts, know it is Saigon and not Ho Chi Minh City.

We will see what the American voters say next time around.

Providing nuclear capability to a group of gangsters like this... is the most absurd thing that I have ever heard.

Now is our time to make sure that we, all these decades later, that we can work together with the people of Vietnam and succeed where we failed in the past.

I don't think the United States has anything to apologize for in terms of what we have tried to do for the people of Vietnam.

We need to be on the side of those who long for freedom and oppose their tyrants who oppress them.

I think it is despicable that we have high-tech American companies providing technology and know-how that will permit dictatorships like Vietnam to track down dissidents.

There has actually been a crackdown and a decrease in the level of freedom in recent years.

I don't think that we should be buying products from a country that has their population in chains.

I do represent a very large contingent of patriotic Americans who happen to trace their roots back to Vietnam.

I don't think we should continue that trend in Vietnam.

We've seen a crackdown on Internet freedom.

I would be happy to have my friend, the President's Advisor on Science refute what I just said, go right ahead.

And perhaps it is a better idea to have more money kept at the local level and provide our local communities with the money they need to handle their own education rather than to focus on how we can restructure things here in Washington…

What will help--I will note I meet every student that comes from my district and I always ask them... if they have ever driven by the Department of Education.

The more centralized our decision-making process, the more restructuring that we do... is not going to change the dynamics that are at play in our country.

There is a distinct difference--philosophical difference--between the people who come to Washington, D.C., to want to structure their government.

I think that we should pay a lot of attention to the weather.

We do know that weather, for example, in Galveston--how many people lost their lives in the Galveston hurricane? Five thousand?

We have been able to save thousands and thousands of lives that otherwise would have been lost

We need to convince the people of Iran and of every ethnic makeup that we are on their side in their struggle for freedom.

It is going to require more than just a step in the right direction. It is going to require--and a prevention of a nuclear armed Iran, but it is to require us to support those people who struggle for freedom in that country as well.

America's weak response to the suppression and the brutal putdown of those students who were requesting an honest election--our actually weak response was embarrassing to us.

To make the world safer, we must understand that the world will not be safer until the mullah dictatorship is replaced by a government that is not dedicated to destroying Israel or supporting terrorists throughout the Western world.