Tom Lantos Quotes

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

  Tom Lantos

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fashion

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

  Tom Lantos

  Topics in America

  Tags in Patience

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

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Lord

• The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.

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  Tags in Leader

• 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.

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  Topics in Job, Leadership

• 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.

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  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Restriction

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

  Tom Lantos

  Topics in America

  Tags in Resolution

• 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.

  Tom Lantos

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsibility, Military

• 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.

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  Tags in Anniversary, Live

• 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.

  Tom Lantos

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Government

• 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.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Government

• 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?

  Tom Lantos

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Terrorists

• 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.

  Tom Lantos

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human

• 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.

  Tom Lantos

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Internet

• 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.

  Tom Lantos

  Topics in Politics, Power

  Tags in Wealth

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

  Tom Lantos

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Peace

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

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  Topics in Children

Tom Lantos (17)

Birth:	1st February, 1928
Death:	11th February, 2008
Nationality:	American, Hungarian
Profession:	Analyst, Consultant, Professor

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