Political Quotes

“I have seen over there on different occasions when the temperature cooled off down to 106, I have seen the Marines go out at three o'clock in the afternoon and play basketball in 106 temperature because it has cooled off. I got an e-mail from a lieutenant colonel that we met over there at Camp Arifjan, Lieutenant Colonel Gary Ace, and he happens to be an individual that helped set up a trip a year ago last 4th of July for my staff and their families to take a bus and go up to Gettysburg for the 4th of July with the Army historian, to travel throughout all Gettysburg and review that on the historical day with the Army historian. Lieutenant Colonel Gary Ace, who was deployed to the Middle East and met us there at Camp Arifjan at really our first stop, it was quite ironic. He sent me an e-mail a couple of days ago that said it has cooled off down to about 110 or 112, and it seems ironic to say so, but it is a relief from the heat. I would just like to go through a number of the things that I reflected upon as I listened to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Dent) and the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Cuellar) speak on this issue and refer back to a colloquy, if I might. You brought a number of things to mind that I would like to embellish a little bit. One of them has to do with the heat and the water, and the gentleman from Pennsylvania's (Mr. Dent) remarks in particular, when he said bone-dry ditches.…”