Political Quotes

“I know Senator Roth will join me in expressing great gratitude and appreciation for Senator Warner's characteristic generosity. It comes from the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, which is doubly important. Mr. President, we are nearly there. In a short while, the Senate will cast an epic vote. At the Finance Committee's final hearing on China this spring, on April 6, 2000, our last witness--Ira Shapiro, former Chief Negotiator for Japan and Canada at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative--put it this way: . . . [this vote] is one of an historic handful of Congressional votes since the end of World War II. Nothing that members of Congress do this year--or any other year-- could be more important. This achievement--for it is a crowning achievement--caps an eventful year. All the more impressive in light of last December's ``global disaster''--as the Economist magazine on December 11, 1999, put it-- that was the Seattle World Trade Organization Ministerial. In January, it was thought that our long-standing trade policy was in serious jeopardy--the trade policy that, for 66 years--ever since Cordell Hull created the Reciprocal Trade Agreements program in 1934-- has contributed so much to our nation's prosperity. But we have prevailed. And more.…”