Political Quotes

“Last week, Mr. President, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright traveled to Geneva to meet with the other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. The purpose of her meeting was to convince the world's declared nuclear powers to join the United States in condemning India and Pakistan for their recent nuclear tests and somehow to prevent an arms race from escalating in South Asia. To no one's surprise but her own and President Clinton's, no agreement was reached. The foreign policy of the United States in the Clinton Administration has now come down to this. In dealing with the People's Republic of China, a country with a developing internal free market, but repressive of any political dissent, with systematic restrictions against competitive American products, and a blind eye toward billions of dollars of intellectual property piracy, we not only don't defend the victims of these practices, we generously supply the PRC with missile technology that allows it to increase in its already immense threat to its neighbors. The Clinton Administration gives 'Most Favored Nation' treatment for China a whole new meaning. What it means now is, what China wants, China gets--even an American president to be greeted on Tiananmen Square, insulting the memory of its martyrs. And then we are surprised when India tests nuclear weapons, joining a club we founded fifty years ago. We react by sanctioning--unilaterally--the world's most populous democracy.…”