Political Quotes

“I have sent for some examples of the absurd things that are going on. I had not intended to burden the Record with those, but just to indicate that there is nothing frivolous about this amendment. There is not the slightest intent that it be implemented without good reason. I want to give some examples of what has been going on, and the State Department has not lifted a finger to correct it. Apparently, I am going to have to look in my records because one country seized the property of an American citizen and it is now being occupied by the Cuban Embassy. You know that is just absolutely absurd. But I will put those in the Record at a later time. As to confiscations that we know of in Latin America alone, there are 50 in Honduras; there are 17 in Costa Rica; there are 790 people with 1,200 pieces of property in Nicaragua; two in Panama; two in Venezuela; one in Argentina, and so forth and so on. But I am not going to await the delivery to me of the information that I frankly did not ask my staff to get up for me, but we will get it up and we will insert it in the Record later on.”