Political Quotes

“This is, whether we like it or not, a fundamental moral issue, perhaps the overriding one internationally that this Congress will have to address. As the gentleman said with regard to human rights, as we vote on this issue, we should think of several things: There are more slave labor camps in China today than there were in the Soviet Union, and we all remember Solzhenitzen's book, Gulag Archipelago. I was in one of those camps, Perm Camp 35, with the gentleman from New Jersey, Chris Smith. They are very grim places. And yet Members should know, the world and the body should know, that there are more slave labor camps in China than there were in the Soviet Union during the heyday of the Soviet Union. Second, there are more individuals in those gulags, slave labor camps, logi camps, than there were in the Soviet Union. Also, they make goods, they make supplies, they make socks; they make different items like that for export to the United States, in competition with American workers.”