Political Quotes

Dana Rohrabacher

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Dana Rohrabacher is a former U.S. Representative for California's 48th congressional district, serving from 1989 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he is known for his libertarian views and strong support for the tech industry. During his time in Congress, Rohrabacher was an advocate for various issues, including technology innovation and foreign policy matters, particularly regarding Taiwan and its democratic governance. He often emphasized the importance of individual liberties and limited government intervention.

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Mar 20, 2013

Finally, we need to stop educating our adversary.

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Mar 20, 2013

We should have a ban on the import of any Chinese networking hardware, and specifically I mean Huawei.

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Mar 20, 2013

We need to do some serious actions. And I strongly recommend, first of all, that we have a tariff on Chinese technology that accounts for our governmental cost in cybersecurity to defend against the Chinese.

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Mar 20, 2013

The Chinese Government can't think of enough things to do with the money that they have been earning from the economic warfare that they have been executing against the United States.

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Mar 20, 2013

The Internet was developed by the United States Government at United States taxpayer expense.

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Mar 20, 2013

We have got to give up on this naive perception that China is doing everything they can to move forward to become the United States.

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Mar 20, 2013

Life wasn't so complicated before, was it?

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Mar 20, 2013

There is too many targets to defend, and right now those people who could possibly commit these acts don't know what those serious consequences are.

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Mar 20, 2013

They are costing clearly, billions, and I believe, hundreds of billions of dollars, and this translates to real effect on American individual workers, and this results in loss of life to Americans as well.

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Mar 20, 2013

Well, I am sure threatening to have a sustained dialogue is really going to deter these fellows along with proclamations of great concern.

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Mar 20, 2013

Thus, the only way that we can defend ourselves is if those who are committing crimes against us face serious consequences.

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Mar 20, 2013

We need to hold those host countries responsible to some degree for what is going on within their borders.

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Mar 20, 2013

Thank you very much. And if the microphones go off and the lights go off, we will know someone is watching. We are under attack.

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Mar 20, 2013

We must use diplomacy to deter them by telling Beijing and others in clear terms that we will not allow their hacking to continue without retaliation.

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Mar 20, 2013

We should deter, not just to try to block, but we should deter cyber attacks and perhaps counterattack.

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Mar 20, 2013

Such potential damaging and brazen attacks on the United States should provoke a much more aggressive and powerful response than we are currently exercising.

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Mar 20, 2013

These acts, which put our country in severe jeopardy, must be met with the same national security and diplomatic measures that we use to meet other external threats.

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Mar 19, 2013

Eisenhower warned us about this, and quite frankly, we have seen evidence of that in a number of areas.

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Mar 19, 2013

Now, if that isn't bias, I don't know.

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Mar 19, 2013

Expertise is biased if those experts are from the private sector, but if those experts receive their experience by getting government grants and are part of government studies which have put them part of this elite that Eisenhower warned…

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Mar 19, 2013

What the report found is that almost 60 percent of the members of EPA's chartered SAB and CASAC, that is 34 of the 58 members, have directly received National Center for Environmental Research Grants from the Agency since 2000.

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Mar 19, 2013

The prospect of domination of the Nation's scholars by Federal employment project allocations and the power of money is ever-present and is gravely to be regarded.

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Mar 18, 2013

Well, if it is unsustainable, how can anyone suggest that we remain in Afghanistan and just have more of our people killed like this poor captain down in Florida?

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Mar 18, 2013

We superimposed Karzai on them and in fact, our Ambassador Zal wrote their constitution.

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Mar 18, 2013

Pakistan has declared itself an enemy of the United States.

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