Political Quotes

“In an ideal world, we would not be coming up with this amendment because the administration would, as a matter of course, be doing everything it could to get our allies to do it. The problem we have run into... is there has been a bipartisan bias on the part of administrations, executive branches, State Departments not to press any of our allies anywhere, any time, until we got into it. So the reason, it seems to me, we have to legislate and legislate with more specificity than would be ideal and to put more pressure on is precisely the kind of attitude that was evinced by the administration that negotiated everything away and that I do not think would protect our interests in South Korea sufficiently unless we intervened. There is just a constituency problem there, and the State Department and, to some extent, the Defense Department, have a constituency that is not concerned with the taxes here, more concerned with making nice overseas.”