Political Quotes

“I appreciate the opportunity to speak before the House and all the people who are here listening. Today's talk is going to be a Special Order on the human rights abuses of China. Being the 30-year anniversary of Tiananmen Square, where hundreds, if not thousands, of people were murdered at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, I think it is due that we give respect to the people. What I have here is a poster of people in China in 1989 who came to Tiananmen Square. These were the people who were peaceful. They were wanting a democracy. They were wanting the things that we yearn for that are innate in all people. And we are blessed in this Nation to be born in a country where the founding principles said that our rights come from our creator, not from government, and government is instituted by ``we the people.'' We give our consent to be governed, the very first nation on the planet to ever do that. And so that word had spread around the world, obviously. China, being somewhat of a hermit nation from the Opium Wars of the 1840s into the early 1900s, wasn't introduced to the modern world. But with the advent of publications and with other things, they became aware of what freedom was. And freedom, as we know it in this country, is something that we fought for. The freedom and liberty that we have today is something that is innate in all humans on the planet, regardless of what government form they have.…”