Political Quotes

“let me say to the distinguished ranking member of the Committee on International Relations, the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Hamilton], that I listened to his statements about the possible destabilization of our armed situation with the Soviet Union, and let me just remind my colleagues that this amendment eliminates some possibilities of working together with the Soviet Union. Mr. Yeltsin said in two speeches, January 29 and January 31, 1992, that the strong possibility existed of the Soviet Union teaming up with the United States and using Soviet technology and U.S. SDI technology to develop what Mr. Yeltsin, not President Reagan and not President Bush, but what Mr. Yeltsin described as a global protection system. Now we are giving up that possibility. We are giving up that opportunity, if we adopt this amendment, that we are not going to hear any evidence about anything except the system that the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Edwards] thinks will work. That is a ground-based system. It does not make sense to give up not only the possibilities that our technicians offer us and our scientists say they want to testify about, but also to give up the possibilities that have been offered to us by the Soviet Union.”