Political Quotes

“I rise today after reading today's editorial from the Washington Post titled ``Catholic `Criminals' in China,'' that describes how the Chinese Government has rearrested an 81-year-old Roman Catholic bishop, Bishop Zeng. Here is a picture of Bishop Zeng in prison garb. And the Senate today is ready to grant MFN to China. The bishop has spent most of his life in a Chinese prison, imprisoned through labor camps. He was imprisoned in 1958, was let out of jail for 1 month, then rearrested and imprisoned until 1991. In 1996, in his late 70s, he was rearrested again and put in a forced labor camp. Imagine being in a forced labor camp at 70 and 80 years of age. A Chinese leader affiliated with the Chinese Government's recent public relations blitz said, ``American voters should get to know us.'' Indeed, American people, this Congress, the Clinton administration and the next administration must know the true character of the Chinese Government is one that throws 80-year-old Catholic bishops into forced labor camps. Does anyone in the Clinton administration care? Does the Congress care? Does anyone care?”