I am appreciative of the Bush administration's commitment to fair trade by looking at the facts in this case and ruling affirmatively for the implementation of quotas in this specific category.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm quite an advocate of free trade.
That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.
I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.
We need fair and free trade.
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work?
And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
Cap-and-trade is a dangerous policy fraught with the potential for significant corruption, and it would hurt my constituents and our economy by raising energy costs.