Richard Lugar on Foreign Policy
Excerpts from Speech, Nashua, NH: May 7, 1995

....First of all I believe that our country must adopt a very
strong foreign policy that makes certain that America leads the
world.  That we are  guiding other countries through the enormous
power and authority and opportunity we have.
I want to take a special focal point in these few minutes to
say that the particular urgency of this tragic intersection in our
in our history of the world.  Between the weapons of mass
destruction left over after the cold war: nuclear weapons, chemical
weapons, biological weapons, those we made, those that our Soviet
Union adversaries made.  
The leftovers of this, give me a great deal of worry. They
give me a special worry at a time that terrorists in the world,
whether they are international terrorists or domestic terrorists, 
have (inaudible) to get their hands upon these weapons of mass
destruction.  We've had four significant arrests in Germany last
year people with fissile material apparently coming out of Russia
were arrested, so we know of attempted sales, we know of two weeks
ago in Slovakia, 34 lbs. of Uranium crossing in a car there,
apparently coming out of Russia once again, perhaps not quite of
weapons grade at this point, but of people wanting to sell their
material and buyers out there wanting to buy it.
Now that is the dilemma.  Let me make very clear, the
intersection between foreign policy and domestic policy becomes
very stark as we survey the World Trade Center and the Federal
Building in Oklahoma City and contemplate that destruction.  And
think of what would 've occurred if perpetrators had had nuclear
material. 
We face, and so do the Russians, the Chinese, the Ukrainians,
Pakistanis, and everyone else in the world the potential
destruction of our cities and a rearrangement of life as we know
it.  And that is why with the President of the United States at
this point lacking sufficient clout to get even our NATO allies,
Great Britain, France, and Germany to go along with a policy we've
adopted of an embargo against shipments of our exports to Iran.
Because they are about to import a cold-water nuclear reactor for
what we believe clearly are  purposes of trying to build nuclear
weapons in Iran.  
And and with Russia still prepared to make that sale,
obviously our influence with that group has been  negligible.  The
fact that the President has struck out in his ability to manage
either the alliance or the previous opponents in North Korea.  We
have the similar incidents in which we are literally by ourselves
having blown a relationship that might have been built presumably
with Japan, with China, with the South Koreans, with the Russians. 
That is why foreign policy really has to be talked about cause we
have problems in the world that are going to affect us grevously,
if we are not effective
And I am trying to make a point based in my presidential
campaign I am prepared to step up to that challenge. I believe that
my experience over the last 15 years has prepared me to do the
proper job for the security of this country and that is the prime
requisite of the person you chose to serve as President of the
United States.