Political Quotes

“Let us just walk through these. First, it was stated that these sales have been made carefully. They have not been made carefully. The first sales to the Soviet Union, the individuals who made the sales have been, according to the briefings that I have gotten, have been fired for making the sales. There are potential criminal actions for making the sales. So these were not prudent private people making sales. In interviewing the CEO's who were involved with these companies, there are two things here. First, they say they are confused by our supercomputer policy. Because as the gentleman from California points out, if we are selling the supercomputer to the agriculture department in China, ostensibly that is OK. But we all know that is a fiction because the military in China accesses everything. So we have to presume conclusively it is going to the military. If they put military on the shipping order, then it is illegal. If they put Agriculture Department on the shipping order, then it is okay. Second, these sales damaged American security.”