Lantos Quotes

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

Tom Lantos

#2. There's a truth to the fact that it's hard to be real. It's easy to be indulgent. It's easy to be bubble gum, but it's hard to find a real thing that really makes your soul tick. It's painful and honest. It can be more challenging than just a sad song.

Mat Kearney

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

Tom Lantos

#4. But people may do great good accidentally, though with evil intentions - conversely people may do great evil though having the best of intentions.

Michael Moorcock

#5. 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

#6. The man or woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the bowed frame of years, you will always see the dear face and feel the warm heart union of your eternal love.

Alfred Armand Montapert

#7. 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.

Tom Lantos

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

Tom Lantos

#9. Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

Bodhidharma

#10. 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

#11. 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.

Tom Lantos

#12. 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.

Tom Lantos

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Tom Lantos

#16. 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

#17. I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

George Carlin

#18. 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

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

Tom Lantos

#20. I think, to a certain extent the economy and these decisions I made to protect the country matter a lot.

George W. Bush

#21. 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

#22. 40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

Tom Lantos

#23. 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.

Tom Lantos

#24. 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

#25. 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.

Tom Lantos

#26. The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.

Robert Cialdini