Political Quotes

“The gentleman raises a very interesting point. In fact, two hours ago I met with the senior leaders of the Israeli company building the Arrow program in my office as well as Israeli officials. They have had the success the gentleman refers to. In fact, this past week they had another success with the Arrow program. But it gets down to a basic philosophical debate in this city where the liberals want to tell us that arms control agreements and arms control regimes will provide the security protection we need. And many on our side, like myself and my colleague are saying, you need systems because you cannot always trust those other signatories to the arms control regimes. But this administration has failed in three different ways. First of all, they have not committed themselves to force the deployment of missile defense systems, partly because they want arms control agreements. This administration has the worst record in enforcement of arms control agreements in this century. Two months ago I did a floor speech where I documented 37 instances of arms control violations by Russia and China, where Russia and China sent technology to India, to Pakistan, to Iraq, to Iran, to Syria, Libya and North Korea. In those 37 instances, the administration imposed sanctions three times and then waived the sanctions in each of those cases. So it should be no surprise to us when India and Pakistan saber rattled each other. We saw China sending 11 missiles to Pakistan.”