Political Quotes

“I know that the President's, the Clinton administration's appointees in the Pentagon have said there is no threat to national security. They also told us the other day and repeated in a statement there is no threat to this country in terms of incoming ballistic missiles. Both of us disagree with the second statement that they made, and I think we should both disagree with the first statement they have made. Mr. Chairman, I want to remind my colleagues that all of the nations which are signatories to this agreement, all the major nations that are asking us to give up our national shipbuilding program, are nations that in this century have been saved militarily or protected militarily by America's national shipbuilding program. They will wait for us to work this agreement and make it right before they sign it. Second, my colleagues, this is a sovereignty issue.”