Political Quotes

“I am kind of surprised at the gentleman's tirade here, because this gentleman never mentioned money, never mentioned treason, rarely mentioned the President. And when I went over the litany or the chronology of missile launches, I started with the Bush Administration in 1990. This is a Committee on National Security. We are not worried about where the money came from or what it did or whether there was influence. What we are concerned about, very simply, is this statement, this statement made by President Clinton's Department of Defense. Hopefully that is not part of a right wing conspiracy, I would say to my friend who just spoke. 'In May 1997 the administration was jolted by a classified Pentagon report concluding that scientists from Hughes and Loral Space and Communications had turned over expertise that 'significantly improved the reliability of China's nuclear missiles.' ' That is the New York Times, April 13, 1998. Our Department of Defense said American security has been damaged. That is what we are concerned about.”