Political Quotes

“I rise today during this period of time when we are discussing the need for additional security for airports and airliners to again voice my strong support for the measures included in the legislation that is soon to be before us. Having said that, I also observe that this country has shown it is pretty good at fighting the last war in preparing to fight the next war. Those of us who are students of the history of World War I know that World War II was a lot different from World War I, and we only have to think of the Maginot Line to know how different it was. Korea was different from World War II; Vietnam was different from Korea; the Persian Gulf was different from Vietnam. We are now struggling in this war against terrorism to make sure the kinds of tragedies that occurred on September 11 do not occur again, and we should do that. If we look back at the history of the last several years with respect to terrorism, we had the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, the bombing of two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole last year as it was at anchor, and now the use of our own aircraft as guided missiles to be used against the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.”