Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. I welcome him to our group, and I appreciate his very important remarks as we observe the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. As always, I am absolutely honored and pleased to join my colleagues, the distinguished former chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and now chair of the subcommittee, Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen. Mr. Wolf and Mr. Smith and I have been fighting this fight together for decades. I thank them for their courage. We both oppose our own Presidents--they are Republican, I a Democrat on a Democratic President--on this subject. This is a bond that we have had about respecting the dignity and worth of every person. When we saw what happened in Tiananmen Square, it was almost unbelievable to see the Government of China turning on its own people, having tanks run over their children in Tiananmen Square who were speaking out against corruption, who were speaking out for more openness, for speaking out to speak out. I have treasured this poster in my office over the years, for 25 years. It has been signed by every major dissident who has been able to leave China. Not many of them can go back. But it is the symbol that Mr. Chris Smith talked about of the man before the tank. It is one of the most iconic figures in the history of democratic freedoms in the world. However, if you were to go to China and ask young people about this poster--they know this picture--they know nothing about it.…”