Political Quotes

“I think this is an issue that has been talked about. There is a lot of interest in it and rightfully so. In China, even as I speak to you now, human beings working as slaves because of their ethnicity and their religion, Uighur Muslims, are in factories making products that people will buy this holiday season and throughout the year. I think it would be shocking to most Americans. I think it would be shocking to all of us to know that even as I stand here now, there are products in this very Chamber in the Senate that were touched by and made by the hands of slaves. It is a horrifying, horrifying human rights situation--fully sanctioned, as we now know, by the Government of China, the Communist Party of China. We know this, by the way. The New York Times had access to these documents for a long time--and they were finally revealed--that show that this plan to use slave labor went to the highest levels of that Communist Party. I think it is also appalling that it reveals the level of dependence this country has and the need we have to rebuild our industrial base in this country and in allied nations. It is appalling because it is a fact that we are so dependent on China in our supply chain, that many have asked us to look the other way, to not complain about this, to not pass a bill about this because it would disrupt supply chains, when what they really mean is it would disrupt the bottom line, their profits. I don't need to explain to anybody how this works.…”