Tom Lantos Quotes (62 Quotes)

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 by our own military.

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 China's younger generation.

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 then act accordingly?

Approval and implementation ... may take considerable time in both hemispheres.

Insistance upon specifics at this stage, given the history of the relationship, may not be a very useful negotiating tactic.

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 and in foreign capitals to recruit the necessary 96 affirmative votes to seat the United States in the new council.

(We) strongly encouraged them to understand that in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina, the focus of the American people will turn inward,

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.

My plea to my Palestinian friends is just a simple plea, ... Don't do anything on May 4 because all hell will break loose and all your achievements will go down the drain.

He is the first to recognize the need for the fiscal and administrative reforms at the institution that Congress has called for,

The ayatollahs of terror in Tehran were sent a bold message today that their clandestine efforts to build nuclear weapons, and their transparent lies of peaceful intent, will no longer be tolerated by the civilized world.

I cannot help but wonder how many more people could have been saved had they been able to take their pets.

India has, in effect, agreed to an international commitment not to test (nuclear weapons) again,

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 Buenos Aires, Argentina.

It is time for the United States to make it clear that no nation can continue to pretend that it is a friend of the United States while its missions in New York and Geneva continue to stab us in the back,

When the talks resume on September 12, we fully expect them to conclude in short order.

Your abhorrent actions in China are a disgrace.

New Delhi must understand how important their cooperation and support is to U.S. initiatives to counter the nuclear threat from Iran.

This shocking crime clearly shows the urgent need for Congress to act, in the interest of national security, to plug loopholes in the federal guidelines on how these materials are stored.

I am very pleased that these tapes were found and are being shown, ... Almost a year after the horror of New York, we must be reminded regularly that the terrorists are still around, getting ready with all the power at their command to train new cadres to perpetrate the most horrendous crimes- from suicide bombings to the use of chemical or bio weapons.

Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations.

when the civilized world is engaged in a global war against extremist Islamic terrorism, you have emerged as the quintessential Muslim leader of moderation, decency, reason, and acceptance of pluralism.

When the (Bush) administration called me asking for my support (for the nuclear deal with India), I gave it and continue to do so,

The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.

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 prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.

We will save lives by this, because people will not be forced to choose between being with their pets or getting out of the way of a hurricane,

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.

We would welcome a variety of 'ping-pong diplomacy' approaches, both in the cultural, artistic, (and) athletic field.

It is absurd that rogue states such as Libya, Sudan and Cuba remain on the Commission and sit in judgment on the human rights practices of others, while the U. S. now stands on the sidelines.

Israel is not facing just the terrorists Hamas and Hezbollah. Those criminal groups are merely proxies for the real masters of terror, Syria and Iran.

This conference was designed to deal with discrimination globally, ... Instead, it has focused on one country in a punitive fashion.

But the alarmingly slow pace of Iraq reconstruction, and the misuse of U.S. and Iraqi funds, have serious repercussions for our own national security.

The last session went extremely well and we are headed to Pyongyang to attempt to clarify the remaining problems and urge the North Korean government to return to the talks in two weeks with a positive outlook and approach. We are highly optimistic that the talks will succeed.

This decision represents a major retrenchment in America's long struggle to advance the cause of human rights around the world.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

In a serious, statesmanlike post-election climate you will get a quality debate, ... is the least conducive time for a thoughtful debate.

Now the Chinese government has presented us with a 1 million invoice. This ... is the ultimate arrogance on the part of this communist regime.

The terrorism-breeding culture of poverty and dependency in the refugee camps must be brought to an end. Palestinian refugees should be encouraged to leave the camps and trained to assume normal, productive lives.

We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion.

They caved in to Beijing's demands for the sake of profits.

is the first to recognize the need for the fiscal and administrative reforms at the institution that Congress has called for. Therefore, calls for him to step down are misguided and do him an injustice.

Guyana is becoming one of our trusted allies and is cooperating with us against narcotics trafficking and in the global war on terror.

India's support this past weekend and next November, when Iran should finally be referred to the U. N. Security Council for action, will go a long way to cementing our new partnership. These actions will certainly promote positive consideration in Congress of the new U. S.-India agreement to expand peaceful nuclear cooperation between our two countries.

This area is just one more example of the failures of executive agencies tasked with disaster relief in responding to this greatest natural disaster ever to confront our nation,

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 gates themselves.

This legislation will not add one single missile to Taiwan's defense capability and it will not take away one single missile from China's.

Two generations ago, the civilized world stood in silence and looked away. Congress stands united in our determination to put an end to this.

We will have arms sales coming up to Taiwan. We will be voting on my resolution that would deny the (2008) Olympics to Beijing. We will have trade issues coming up and the whole climate is undermined by this arrogant and inappropriate behavior,

With public support for the war shaky, the refusal of the Executive Branch to do all it can to put these questions to rest only further undermines support, ... This bill asserts an appropriate role for the Congress in the foreign policy process, and it provides the Executive Branch with the opportunity to put to rest doubts about its actions in taking our nation to war.