Political Quotes

“this weekend President Trump will head to Argentina for the G20 summit, where he is expected to meet with President Xi of China to discuss our trading relationship. Now, I have opposed the President on most things. That is hardly a secret. But we agree--we actually agree--on the issue of China. In fact, I agree more with President Trump's views on China than I did with either President Bush or Obama, and I have been supportive of the administration's aggressive course of action on China. China must be made to understand that we are dead serious about changing its behavior on trade: to allow foreign companies to compete in its markets, to end illegal dumping of cheap goods into our markets, and, most importantly, to end the abusive practice of technology transfers and trade espionage that threatens our intellectual property and know-how. These things don't just threaten our intellectual property, an abstract concept. They threaten good-paying jobs--millions of them--and wealth, billions and trillions of dollars that China has stolen, literally and figuratively, through its unfair practices. When we have a good product, you can't sell it in China unless you transfer the technology, but they sell tons of things here. My father-in-law--my late father-in-law--a New York City cabdriver, sometimes said: We are not Uncle Sam; we are Uncle Sap.…”