Political Quotes

“let me respond now. First of all, I want to congratulate my friend from California. I did not realize he had such good intelligence sources, because he has been waving around a secret agreement. My reaction was to wonder, if it was a secret, where he got it. And I do not want to force him to reveal his sources, but apparently the gentleman from California has some tentacles into the intelligence networks of either America or Japan, because he is privy to secret agreements. Frankly I did not think it was that much of a secret, and the fact that the gentleman had it did not surprise me. But when he waved it around as a secret agreement, I was little bit puzzled. I just want to totally disagree with the conspiracy theory here. This is a difficult subject in some regards. People who have different economic interests may have different views. There is room for legitimate intellectual debate here. I and others have had some differences with the bill. H.R. 400 today is a different bill than it was before. There are some close questions. Some of the questions the gentleman from California [Mr. Campbell] raised about prior use, I had hoped to work with him further. But this is not some conspiracy. There was not a secret agreement signed in some tunnel in Tokyo. The gentleman from California is refuting me on a secret agreement by waving that secret around. I have to say, it is a pretty poor secret that falls into the hands of the gentleman from California.”