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“ Between then and now the Fraser Subcommittee has published its report declaring that the laws of this land have been systematically violated by the Unification Church; we have watched the cults proliferate; we have witnessed the horror of Jonestown; and we cannot help but ask when is something going to be done.
Now, I am a Jew, and I am a Rabbi, and I cherish -- as do my people -- the grandure of the First Amendment. That amendment prevents, and properly so, the government from investigating the beliefs of any group that calls itself religious ”

“ That is what nations were created for in the first place. A nation that cannot protect its citizens is a failure. A nation that does not even try is a catastrophe.
Whatever the problems, whatever the difficulties, whatever the pitfalls, we have to try. ”

“ No man and no group in this country is above the law. Indeed, for 1000 years and more my people have lived with the Hebrew phrase, "Di nai delma cultna de nai." [Phonetic.]
"The law of the land is the law."
Unless that law is upheld and enforced, we all of us are victims and we Jews know this very well.
I have here, Senator Dole and gentlemen, resolutions from the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the New York Federation of Reformed Synogogues, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, all pointing out the very real dangers implicit in the cults that plague our land. ”