36 Quotes by Malcolm Wallop

We are a trading nation. We need access to our markets and we need for those markets to be reasonably secured. If they're not, we can't trade.

There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

It is naive to think that what is done to the judicial filibuster will not later be done to its legislative counterpart, ... The legislative filibuster . . . in the not-so-distant past was our only defense against the excesses of a bipartisan liberalism.

The defense budget became increasingly a function of the defense of the local economy and had nothing to do with any military purpose.

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.