Political Quotes

“Taiwan is our friend, and these are people of freedom who fought for freedom and who recessed to that island across the straits to maintain a free society. We reserve the right to have friends, and encompassed in that friendship is the right to have our military establishment relate and interrelate with their military establishment. That is not a bad thing, and that is very simply what the Ryun amendment does. I have read the statement by DOD that they support it. They say the requirement for a senior official/officer education and training program is supportable. The amendment properly focuses on areas in the defense of Taiwan which pose greatest threats, submarines and missiles. It is absolutely appropriate that we maintain this friendship with Taiwan and in that friendship engage our military leadership, and I would support the amendment.”