Political Quotes

“The Senator from Idaho was instrumental at the end of the week in getting an agreement from the Democratic leadership to take up the nomination of Jack Crouch, sometimes known as J.D. Crouch, a distinguished expert in, among other things, missile defense. I had breakfast a couple of months ago, along with other Senators, with Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld. He pleaded with us at that time: Please send me my troops. Please confirm the people we have nominated for the Cabinet and subcabinet positions for the Department of Defense. Now the President is busy in negotiations with the Russians, with Putin, and with others regarding missile defense, and the nomination of a distinguished member of his subcabinet, Jack Crouch, has not been taken up. He was nominated on May 7. He was nominated even before John Negroponte. Still no confirmation.”