Political Quotes

“I rise in complete accord with the resounding statement of the Senator from Iowa. I know he would agree with me when I say we are both here speaking in the intellectual grasp of our chairman, Senator Roth, who will return to the Senate next week after necessary surgery and who is so much responsible for our being here today. The Senator from Iowa said the world is watching. The world is watching and has been watching with dismay for 6 years as we seem to have backed away from that tradition which Cordell Hull took up at the depths of the recession, which I will get to, and we have carried on, on a bipartisan basis, right into the nineties and then we seem to have stopped. This is the first trade bill to come to the Senate floor in 6 years. More, we have defeated measures. We have denied the President the trade negotiating authority for trade agreements. It took the administration too long to ask for it. It responded to the same domestic pressures we saw in Seattle and we saw in front of the World Bank, baffling in some instances, but powerful. Now we return to our tradition.”