George Bush actually said...

Impose the costs of leave on employers regardless of their ability to absorb such costs.

Statement of Administration Policy: H.R. 2 - Family and Medical Leave Act of 1991

10/23/1991

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I have a strong feeling with Mr. Mitterrand and others in France that we have an obligation, the French have an obligation, to work so that ...

The more France wants to be involved in that, the better it is.

I have to sell him on the fact that this presents no threat to the Soviet Union.

No, I don't think we have to help him.