William Reinsch Quotations

Had we known ... then what we know now, we wouldn't have approved the license -- no question.

I think we're riding a wave of xenophobia.

It does seem like they're unloading this in the equivalent of a fire sale.

It does a good job of defining the difficult issues we face with China, but its standard solution is to beat Chinese over the head until they comply. That approach runs the risk of undoing our policy of engagement with China, which has been the policy of the last five administrations.

We're very concerned about it. ... It's going to cut off a lot of legitimate non-military trade.

A year from now we're all going to be embarrassed by this.

Foreigners have a whole pile of dollars. I don't know what we expect them to do with them.

It just baffled me and drove the business types crazy. The stuff that OFAC was doing was important and made a big difference to their businesses, particularly if they got caught in the wrong place.