Howard Berman Quotes

So let me talk a little bit about my perspective on U.S.-Iranian relations and also try to give you a sense of what some of my colleagues in the House are thinking.
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Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.
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The Administration has undertaken the 'mining' of data from public and non-public databases.
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The aggregate hard-good piracy losses suffered by U.S. copyright industries in foreign nations are pretty astounding.
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The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.
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The Attorney General unilaterally instituted a number of policies dealing with detention of non-citizens that we address.
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The Attorney Gerneral ordered blanket closure of immigration court hearings and prolonged detention of individuals without charges.
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The CLRA terminates this program and provides a process by which those individuals unjustly detained could proceed with interrupted immigration petitions.
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The Europeans' answer is to pursue a policy of "constructive engagement," sometimes referred to as "critical dialogue".
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The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.
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The legislation introduced today is a product of hard work and cooperation with Reps. Sensenbrenner, Conyers, Sweeney, and Osborne and is a first step in that effort.
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The percentage of pirated goods in these five nations provides another disturbing measure of the severity of the problem.
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The piracy-related inability of U.S. copyright owners to access a legitimate market in many foreign countries results in real harm to the U.S. economy.
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The question is, what should we do about it? What is the best way to change the regime's behavior?
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There is a difference between the signing of contracts and the actual investment of funds.
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There is evidence that Iran is trying to engineer closer cooperation between Hezbollah and Hamas in terrorist operations against Israel.
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There is no reason we should treat Iran differently than the Palestinians or North Koreans.
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These and other terrorist activities have led the State Department to designate Iran as the world's most active state sponsor of terrorism.
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These are debatable issues, and they should be debated much more than they have been because Iran is an extremely important country.
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They believe that by engaging with Iran on many different levels - economic, political, and cultural - they can moderate the regime's behavior.
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They have attempted to undermine the Middle East peace process at every turn, even hosting "summits" for radical Palestinian rejectionist groups.
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This policy also has limitations. Our allies have pursued a different approach, thus undercutting the effectiveness of our policy.
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This program creates a culture of fear and suspicion in immigrant communities that discourages cooperation with antiterrorism efforts.
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Unfortunately, despite Khatami's talk of a "dialogue of civilizations," it's my understanding that Iran is issuing very few visas to Americans.
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We can use these expanded broadcasts to explain U.S. policies to the Iranian people as well as inform them about their own government's irresponsible behavior.
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We have not prevented Iran from supporting terrorists or violating human rights.
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We have to start somewhere.
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We should try to expand our efforts to promote civil society in Iran through the National Endowment for Democracy or other organizations.
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We will never know for sure how successful ILSA could be unless the Administration enforces the law, which they have failed to do.
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Whatever the reality of the political situation in Iran, all indications are that tensions in the country are rising and may be nearing the boiling point.
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When Khatami and his "reformist" allies were first elected in 1997, many of us hoped that we would see real changes in Iranian behavior.
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When the engagement policy began, Iran was a major human rights abuser. This continues to be true today.
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When the Europeans launched their engagement policy, Iran was a major state sponsor of terrorism. The same remains true today.
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When those changes didn't come, the experts told us that he was really trying, but his reform program was completely stymied by the hardliners.
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While I can't speak for my House colleagues, I think it's safe to say that my views are held by many others.
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While I don't want to steal Joan's thunder either, I do want to highlight some of the issues that I think her particular situation presents.
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While international hard-goods piracy may seem a dull subject to some, it is a critical issue to U.S. copyright holders.
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