Political Quotes

“a man does not live by bread alone, and if one listens to the debate, one would begin to wonder. It was 55 years ago last month that Dietrich Bonhoffer was marched from his prison cell in Flossenburg Prison in Nazi Germany and hung because he stood on behalf of human rights and speaking out. There are modern Dietrich Bonhoffers in prison today in China, and this Congress and this administration ignores it. We talk about the Berlin Wall falling; to my side, the Berlin Wall did not fall. Ronald Reagan pushed it down. He pushed it down with the help of the Pope and the AFL-CIO who helped Lech Walesa and Natan Sharansky and Andrei Sakharov and others. We say that we are changing the tactics that work to defeat communism. Can anyone imagine a Member getting up in this body in the 1980s saying, let us help give more money to Russia, that way we will defeat them. We say we are a pro-family Congress and a pro-family party. Mr. Speaker, 500 women a day in China commit suicide and endure forced abortion and forced sterilization. We say we are for a strong defense, and if Members got the CIA briefing and unfortunately, not many did, they see the threat to this country, and they see that every major veterans' group supports defeat of this. In closing, Ronald Reagan said on December 4, 1992, "Do not forget those who suffer under tyranny and violence. Do not abandon them to the evils of totalitarian rule or democratic neglect.”