Tom Lantos Quotes

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• On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in…
• So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.
• Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.
• Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.
• Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support,…
• The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.
• Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established…
• We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion.
• The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget…
• 40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.
• A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.
• Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among…
• Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the…
• How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and…
• Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in…
• The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.
• The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.
• Today's announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats in New York…
• Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations.

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