Political Quotes

“I would absolutely agree. I think pretty soon fall football practice will start, and I can't imagine a football coach inviting the other coach in to watch your fall drills, or ``Here is my playbook. Here is how we run these plays and here is how I call them.'' You would never do it. You would never sit down to a poker game and play your hole cards face up. When you are at war, intelligence is a big part of it. And to be able to tip your hand to say, no, we are going to pull out of here on such and such a date, the enemy could go underground, hole up. They could use that period of time to store more weapons, more ammunitions, do more training, just stay out of combat; and then, when that moment comes, come back out of their holes in the ground and turn around and attack Americans and Coalition troops and Iraqis. This is such a solid concept that you are addressing here. It is such a solid concept that I am surprised that there is anyone on the other side of the aisle that promotes and supports such a thing. About a week ago, former President Clinton also stood with you on this issue and with me on this issue on how ridiculous it would be to establish a date certain to pull out of Iraq. You illustrated that first year, some months ago, the statement was made that we should pull troops back to the horizon. Now I envision that to be kind of back there where the sun sets on the hill or rises on the hill. Either way it would be a horizon.…”