Claiborne Pell: “I realize that our colleagues are waiting with more amendments because the deadline is 6 o'clock tonight, but I cannot…”

I congratulate him, too, on his prescience in evaluating the long-term viability of the Soviet system. He, and others, including George Kennan, saw that the Soviet system was so antinatural, so incapable of satisfying human needs that it…

I rise to support the Senator from Massachusetts and the Senator from Louisiana. I think that Harry Wu has been treated in a dreadful manner. We all agree with that. Of even greater importance is the relationship with China. I am reminded…

I, like many Americans, opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war and worked through the political process to bring it to an end. I was relieved that the war was over--a cause to which I had given many years of my life--that American…

I think he enjoys the credentials to be an excellent Deputy Secretary. He enjoys the most important credential of all, as Senator Glenn observed, because ``he clearly enjoys the full and complete confidence of the President and the…