Political Quotes

“I hope that at some point someone will explain what that modification is. But this question relates to a different issue. One of the typical restraints that the United States has imposed on the sale of food and medicine to suspect countries has been that there has to be an independent source of distribution so that the food and medicine will not be, as allegedly has occurred in North Korea, diverted just to feed the soldiers and let the civilian population starve. In light of that, I am concerned with the language on line 15, where it states that 'the President shall not restrict or otherwise prohibit any exports,' and then it lists the items. Would this mean that the President could not impose a restriction, such as the requirement that, yes, we will provide food and medicine, but in a manner that will assure that the people for whose good we intended it to be utilized will be fed, will be medicated, not the elite or those elements of the society that are serving to oppress the people? Would the President be prohibited from making those kinds of restrictions?”