Political Quotes

“I urge Members to take a look at a recent poll done by the Weekly Standard which I will put in the Record. This is what Public Opinion Strategies said: By an overwhelming margin of 61 to 29 percent, the American people oppose MFN for China. The other 10 percent did not know. Sixty-one to twenty-nine percent. The pollsters asked the respondents: ``Do you support or oppose continuing most-favored-nation status with China?'' Sixty-one percent to twenty-nine percent. That is all across the country, in every region, in all the cities, in the suburbs, on the farms, all political spectrum, men and women. The fact is even a greater percentage of women, 67 to 22 percent, oppose MFN. Let us listen to the American people. The Chinese are persecuting Christians, they have Christians in jail, Catholic priests, Catholic bishops, evangelical pastors, persecuting Buddhists and Moslems, and yet this Congress and this administration is thinking of giving MFN for China. I strongly urge Members to read the poll. The American people are aware. The Republican Party and the Democratic Party ought to be. Oppose MFN for China.”