Bob Graham Quotes

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• Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war…
• We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a…
• I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.
• I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.
• The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
• I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an…
• We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in…
• There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise…
• A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it…
• We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.
• We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.
• During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
• In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those…
• The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago.…
• Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the…
• The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every…
• I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.
• I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now…
• I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most…
• The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.

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