Words matter. These are the best Fred Thompson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.
We’ve made some mistakes in this country in times past – the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.
Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can – but draw lines where you must.
And it’s difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC.
Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America’s toxic waste sites.
We’re hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.
Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.
For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children’s health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.
And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.
So if you look back over the long history of China, they’ve never tried to take over the world, but they’ve been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood… in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world.
The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.
That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law.
Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued.
China is one of the world’s greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations.
While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.
For a long time in American history, people didn’t even come up before the Senate. They didn’t come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.
I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.
