For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 2, 2002
Remarks by the President to the Travel Pool During Tour
Holy Redeemer Institutional Church of God in Christ Milwaukee, Wisconsin
10:16 A.M. CDT
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, Terry, what is it?
Q Do you have any response, there's this columnist in the New
York Times today who says that your role on the Board of Harkin Energy
back in the 1980s and its sale of Aloha Petroleum, your sale of stock,
that amounts to the same kind of corporate misbehavior you're now
criticizing.
THE PRESIDENT: Everything I do is fully disclosed, it's been fully
vetted.
Any other question?
Q Excuse me, sir. Do you think you'll be able to work out that
logjam, or is our participation in Bosnia coming to an end?
THE PRESIDENT: The International Criminal Court is troubling to
the United States. It's troubling to the administration, and obviously
trouble with the United States Senate as well.
President Clinton signed this treaty, but when he signed it he
said, it should not be submitted to the Senate. It therefore never has
been, and I don't intend to submit it either, because it -- you know,
as the United States works to bring peace around the world, our
diplomats and our soldiers could be drug into this court and that's a
very troubling -- very troubling to me.
And we'll try to work out the impasse at the United Nations. But
one thing we're not going to do is sign on to the International
Criminal Court.
Q Mr. President, as you contemplate new penalties for corporate
malfeasance, do you think that the laws on the books are insufficient
to prosecute CEOs, or --
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THE PRESIDENT: I will make a statement on that at the appropriate
time, Dick.
Q How should Americans celebrate July 4th this year, given the
anxieties about more attacks?
THE PRESIDENT: They should celebrate heartily because we have
freedom, and we love freedom. And I -- they should also know our
government is doing everything they can to make the homeland secure.
That people ought to be joyous in their celebration and celebrate the
fact that we're fortunate enough to be Americans. I'm going to do that
in West Virginia.
Thank you all.
END 10:18 P.M. CDT
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