Political Quotes

“I had not planned to make a floor speech right now, but I wanted to commend you on both your legislation and on an important point that I think you enumerated both for this body and for the Americans watching. First of all, good piece of legislation. I supported it. I wanted it to move out of the Banking Committee and get to the floor. It is important legislation. Congratulations, and thanks for your leadership. Second of all, as you began your speech, you distinguished between the Chinese people and the Chinese Communist Party. I think many of us are worried that the No. 1 long-term national security threat this country faces is the technology race with the Chinese Communist Party and the way that they use fake private sector companies to steal from U.S. public and private sector entities. When we talk about the problems--those of us who would consider ourselves China hawks--we regularly end up using a shorthand, ``China,'' when we have all spent a lot of time in the SCIF and in private, and we know we mean the Chinese Communist Party, but we don't always adequately qualify that for people who may be entering the debate or new to the debate or looking to politicize the debate.…”