Tom Lantos Quotations

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.

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.

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

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 those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

He is extremely intelligent, well informed, sophisticated and a strong proponent of improved U.S.-Libya ties, ... I have qualms about working with people much nicer than him, but I consider him a valuable asset in building relations with a former rogue state.

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

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.

will pay a very hefty price for their total disregard of U.S. concerns vis-a-vis Iran, the single most important international threat we face.

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 very positive outlook and approach,

to develop a complete picture of the decision-making that led the United States to go to war. ... And the Executive Branch owes it to the American people to make certain that their elected representatives are fully informed.

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.

Your abhorrent actions in China are a disgrace.

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.

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

I only hope we will have an equally charismatic and visionary leader in the future as Kofi Annan has been.

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

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

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.

Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.

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.

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