Political Quotes

“I don't wish to suggest there is anything but good intentions behind all these measures. But to introduce the idea of--is it citizenship we are talking about, ancestry, or what? What is an African, sir? South Africa would be part of the arrangements in this African Growth Act. Suppose there was a plant in Johannesburg that was owned by the descendants of Dutch settlers who arrived in the 17th century; some of the managers were Indian persons who had emigrated in the 19th century under the British Empire--under the British Empire, people moved all over the world. We recently had the great honor of meeting, just off the Senate Chamber, with heads of state from the Caribbean area, and the President of Trinidad and Tobago is of Indian ancestry. That is very normal. Indians moved to California, having gone to the British Empire and gone to Canada and were coming down. And suppose there were Zulu workers there--African, obviously, but they are more recent arrivals than most.”