Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, let us turn to a recent statement by President Bush on trade sanctions. Calling sanctions a "moral statement," President Bush ordered stricter enforcement of the U.S. trade embargo and greater support for the country's dissidents. "It is wrong to prop up a regime that routinely stifles all the freedoms that make us human," said President Bush. Unfortunately, of course, he was referring to that puny little nation of Cuba, and not to the giant economic military power, China. God forbid we should apply the same standards to someone as powerful as they are. You know, driven by big business, policymakers in this body and downtown at the White House for more than 100 years have been talking about dramatic policy changes in China. They are coming. If you stacked up all of the agreements on trade, arms control, and human rights that have been negotiated and signed over the last 100 years by U.S. Presidents, you would have a new Great Wall, or more likely I guess you could call it an imaginary line, because the agreements are not worth the paper they are written on. Most recently, the 1992 MOU on prison labor: violated, torn up, thrown away. The 1994 bilateral on textiles: violated, torn up, thrown away.”