Political Quotes

“First of all, the discourse of the Senator from Texas has really pointed out the primary problems here. They are both political and substantive. The political problem is that there are those who have a different agenda than the President of the United States, who is simply trying to reorganize Government to deal with the threat of terrorism, to create homeland security for the American people. Instead of cooperating in that effort, there are those who would settle old scores, create new agendas, or add new things. Everybody's motives are pure in this. The problem is that by getting the legislation so complicated, so convoluted, and so loaded down with other things, they are going to destroy the original intent, which was to streamline the process and make it easier to deal with the threat of terrorists. My grandmother had great sayings, and one was: Too many cooks spoil the broth. It is not that we all should not have a hand in the drafting of the legislation, but I do think when you are trying to create something such as a new Homeland Security Department, you have to give some deference to the people in the executive branch who have painstakingly put this together, who have experience with making executive offices work, and to the President who has an idea of what he wants to do here.”