“This is yet another in a series of attacks on the religious traditions on which our nation was founded. For far too long, the liberals have used our courts as a way to create rules they cannot achieve popularly through an elected, representative legislature. If anything is unconstitutional, it is this vicious display of judicial activism.”
“I think this is a disaster, ... I think it is the latest chapter in a failed U.S. policy. The administration's own estimate is about 10,000 people will die in this attack, on top of the 6,000 to 7,000 people already dying from the sanctions each month.”
“I do not believe that all of the conditions imposed today are necessary, ... Nevertheless, the parties involved have chosen to make these commitments now in order to obtain the certainty of immediate commission approval.”