Political Quotes

“Can the gentleman imagine the feeling that would roll through China if they found out that the United States House of Representatives, the people's body, voted to deny them MFN? Can you imagine how the dissidents would feel? Can you imagine how the prisoners in the gulags in China would feel? The gentleman is exactly right. I hope that we defeat MFN when it comes here. I know they are going to get MFN because President Clinton is going to give it to them, but if we defeat it, the gentleman is right, the message that we will send through China to the dissidents will be the same message of the 1980s. Do you remember the rally that was held on the lawn from the Capitol down to the Washington Monument on that Sunday for those of the Jewish faith who had been persecuted? Do you remember the hundreds of thousands that came? If we could not that for those who are suffering in China, can you imagine the difference that it would make?”