Political Quotes

“I certainly support this agreement, as I did in committee, but the handling of this bill really represents another foreign policy failure for the Bush Administration. During the last week alone, this Administration has stood alone and isolated from 178 other countries on how to resolve climate change and global warming. It has stood alone and isolated from seven years of negotiations about how to make an international agreement on germ warfare more effective. And it reasserted its intention to unilaterally reject the Antiballistic Missile Treaty that has contributed to three decades of peace. Little wonder that this week's conservative Economist magazine raises the question: "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off: Has George Bush Ever Met a Treaty that He Liked?" Well, it is not this one, because today the Republicans here on the House floor display their real paranoia about any attempt to protect workers and the environment from the potential adverse consequences of international trade. Mr. Speaker, this is an outmoded trade policy that the Bush Administration is advancing at the very time that a number of our trading partners are recognizing that environmental issues need to be addressed as we look at the question of international trade. It is a policy that is consistent only with the Bush Administration's anti-environmental attitudes and policies here in the United States.”