Political Quotes

“earlier today I made an analogy between the measures that are going on tonight dealing with the People's Republic of China and a chapter of a book entitled 365 Days, written by Dr. Glasser, who was a surgeon in a burn ward dealing with Vietnam veterans. In one of those chapters he refers to the medics of Vietnam who, on their own, discovered that for those soldiers who were so horribly wounded that they were not going to live, and there was not anything that the medics could do for them, they started giving them SweeTarts. They told them it was for the pain. The amazing thing was that it seemed to lessen their pain. It did not save their lives, it did not make them any better, but it seemed to lessen their pain. That is kind of what we are doing tonight. The world's greatest Nation is doing business with the world's greatest totalitarian regime. That totalitarian regime has a $40 billion trade surplus with our Nation. Our Nation, because we gave them most-favored-nation status, allows their goods, many of which are made with the slave labor described by the previous speakers, to come into our Nation either totally tariff-free or at a 2 percent tariff. One of the places they compete with is a glove factory in south Mississippi. That is not fair. In turn, when we try to sell products in their Nation, they either do not allow them in, or they charge anywhere from a 20 to 40 percent tariff on American goods. That is not fair.”