Political Quotes

“I say to my good friend, Secretary Perry came and met with members of the Armed Services Committee at a breakfast hosted by the distinguished chairman, Chairman Thurmond, this morning, and recounted the very incident portrayed by this picture. We concede all that. But I would like to come back to this issue. You stress arms control. We have a disagreement on that. Come back to China. We have no arms control--do you not agree they have the capability today of a missile system that could hit Alaska and could hit Hawaii, and that there could be an accidental or rogue firing in that nation? Just witness what happened in connection with the Straits of Taiwan here just several months ago, when we saw what in my judgment were actions by China, presumably under tight command and control, where those actions were in defiance of what I call responsible conduct by major nations in this hemisphere. Let us go back. Let us see if we can narrow debate. They have the system, am I not correct?”