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...raise these important questions, to have this debate and dialogue, if you will, and engage the country on the question of what kind of energy policies we want long term. And to take on, for example, to address such questions as the issue of whether or not we ought to go back and look at nuclear power again. Those are not politically easy things to do, but they are the responsible course of action given the importance of this issue...
...PRESIDENT: Therefore, addiction does require treatment, and I think we ought to look at all sentencing laws, just to make sure that we've achieving what we want to achieve, which is winning the battle on the war on drugs...
...work on areas where we disagree. And I'm going to do so. It's in our interest to trade. We had this debate in the primary. I mean, there were a lot of folks saying, well, we shouldn't trade with China. I disagree; I think we ought to trade with China. It's in our economic interest, but it's also more likely to cause freedom to occur in China. And, Lord knows, we need freedom. After all, Catholic bishops were just hauled in the other day - a Catholic bishop as well as other Catholic hierarchy were arrested...
...monitoring team must also be allowed into Xinjiang and Tibet to ensure that separatists and protesters are treated fairly. Admittedly, China will not be happy about such conditions. But WTO access is worth more to China than having the freedom to torture its people. The U.S. government ought to use its leverage to help China’s leaders understand this...
...forgive me if I do not grieve for our “heroic” spyplane crew, nor for our plane. When it comes to China, getting back a damaged aircraft ought to be the least of our concerns. If you want to denounce China’s oppressive oligarchic regime, then do it—but do it for the right reasons...