Political Quotes

“I thank my good friend and colleague from Florida for his eloquent statement. I thank the Speaker and the majority leader for bringing this resolution to the floor, and of course to Howard Berman the chairman and IIeana Ros-Lehtinen for their strong support for it as well. Madam Speaker, for far too long the Chinese Government has evaded virtually all serious scrutiny of its horrific human rights record-- usually by employing bullying tactics, including threats to nations, multilateral organizations like the U.N., and to individuals. Today the Chinese Government brutalizes women and children through forced abortion and coerced sterilization as part of its barbaric one-child- per-couple policy, which makes brothers and sisters illegal. Today China crushes all political opposition. It tortures and incarcerates Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetan Buddhists and Christians. Today China violently crushes independent labor unions and has transformed the Internet into a tool for surveillance and censorship. I note parenthetically, Madam Speaker, that immediately prior to the Olympics, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf) and I visited Beijing, one of many human rights trips to China. While we were there, we sought to meet with some of the house church leaders who wanted to meet with us and pray with us.…”