Political Quotes

“those are the guys on the front of Time magazine when they get captured; those are the guys that get dragged through the streets by our adversaries; those are the guys that are forced to write confessions under torture. One reason we built this stealth bomber and this stealth technology is so we would not have those guys being shot down and we would bring them home to their families. Mr. Speaker, with the conventional mission that the opponents of B-2 would like to go with, on a conventional mission to hit 16 targets, you risk 134 crew members. If you send one B-2, you risk a total of two crew members. If you send two B-2's, you risk a total of four crew members. I would say to the gentleman from Washington [Mr. Dicks], I would feel pretty bad about telling our Air Force personnel every time in the past, in this century, when we have had top technology, we field it. The best stuff we could get, we field it. Chuck Yeager shot down one of the first German aircraft, a jet aircraft, when he had a propeller driven plane. He was real happy to get into that X-1 that could go faster than the speed of sound in the late 1940's and drive American technology. Mr. Speaker, we have always given our kids technology. This will be the first time we will tell our pilots, ``You know, we spent $30 billion developing a technology that makes your plane virtually invisible to radar, but we decided not to give it to you because we think it is too expensive.''”