Political Quotes

“I want to begin by talking and taking a moment to talk about two groups that are not widely discussed on the floor. The first is Mother Jones, and the second is USA Engage. Mother Jones, or ``MoJo,'' is a national magazine of investigative journalism focusing on political reporting. Ken Silverstein wrote an article in the June 1998 issue of Mother Jones detailing the creation of USA Engage. This group hired Washington lobbyist Anne Wexler to try to make sure nothing gets in the way of promoting international trade with countries around the world whose governments are renown for brutal fear-biased repression of their own people. The human rights records of those countries are made more dismal by widespread torture, terror, imprisonment, persecution and killing of those that do not walk the line. According to MoJo, some of America's largest businesses have given their proxy to USA Engage to deal with these countries having a history of repressing their own people. I know these companies are run by good and decent people who are probably not aware of the range of activities in which the Wexler Group is intensely involved on behalf of USA Engage. I am sure that their stockholders and customers are not aware of them and would be shocked and angered if they were.”