Political Quotes

“When we talked about articulating our values and representing those values, I think about what the President's Trade Representative, Robert Zoellick, has been saying the last month or so. He has been really saying that those of us, whether it is the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pascrell), the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Solis), the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Strickland), the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Bonior), any of us in this institution, Republicans and Democrats alike, who oppose this trade agreement, he really has questioned our commitment to American values and whether we want to join the antiterrorism movement. In fact, when one supports the position we have taken against these trade agreements, we in fact are supporting American values, because American values are things like free elections and believing in the Constitution and supporting workers around the world, and building a better environment and more consumer safety and food safety, and all of that. That is why it is too bad that their campaign in support of this and their arm-twisting, especially in the last 72 hours, has taken on a tone of 'you are either with us or against us; you are either against terrorism or you are for terrorism, or you are against American values or for American values.'”