Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman from Ohio, who is my good friend and someone for whom I have the utmost respect, but if his theory has any substance, then the Mutual Defense Treaty with Taiwan which President Carter abrogated unilaterally must have undergone resurrection. It was improperly terminated then, and how many treaties over the years have been terminated without the involvement of the House that have now experienced Easter? Now, it is a matter of fact that the treaty itself provided a means for revocation and the Senate ratified the treaty in all of its verbiage in all the four corners of the document, and article 15, section 2, as ratified by the United States Senate pursuant to the Constitution, says, ``Each party shall in exercising its national sovereignty have the right to withdraw from this treaty,'' et cetera, et cetera. The President was required to give 6 months notice, he did give 6 months notice, and June 13 of this year equals the 6-month period where the revocation becomes final.”