The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

In the mainframe world, contracts state that if I go out and trade my IBM mainframe for one that's twice as fast, then I have to go back to the vendor of the software and pay more money, ... Companies like BMC and CA have done very nicely over the last 10 years, and certainly over the last 5 years, when MIPS growth was just outrageous.

It has been more than 30 years since this disgraceful episode occurred, and I believe that the United States government should demand the return of the USS Pueblo to the United States Navy without further delay.