"You would get a lot more with honey than you will with vinegar."
"You want better relations with China or you just want to end it all."
"I ask unanimous consent (UC) to submit statements for the record from U.S. Right To Know, Open the Books America, First Legal, Frontiers of Freedom, and Dr. Alina Chan."
"But arguing against that is they tested 90,000-some-odd animals, and there is no animal host that's been found."
"That does not sound to me like open-mindedness, and I wonder what you would tell a younger researcher about putting categorical statements into a scientific paper."
"This virus showed up immediately, very transmissible in humans as if it had been preadapted in a lab."
"That was actually coming from Nature at the time. We want you to doctor it up and even be more strong, because we are making a political point here."
"this is about the business of science with China, this will disturb our relations with China if anybody questions this."
"I know of no other example in modern scientific history or publications where a publication has come forward pronouncing with such authority that the lab leak is implausible."
"FBI concluded it came from the lab."
"There's a lot of evidence that people within the intel agencies actually do believe that there is evidence that it came from the lab."
"They believed it did not come from nature."