Political Quotes

“We can build a missile defense system for less than 1 percent of the annual defense budget. I might add, the annual defense budget has been reduced by $100 billion under what it was when Ronald Reagan faced down the Soviet Union in the 1980s. But for roughly $5 billion, that is the estimate of Dr. Perry, Mr. Clinton's Secretary of Defense, we can build this defensive system; $5 billion is less than our Aegis destroyer program. It is less than our submarine program. It is less than our bomber program. It is less than our F-22 program. And it is the only thing that will stop incoming ballistic missiles. We need that system. The Defend America Act that the gentleman is cosponsoring, that Mr. Kingston is cosponsoring and that Mr. Spence, the chairman of the Committee on Armed Services, Mr. Livingston, chairman of Appropriations, and our Speaker Newt Gingrich are sponsoring, will be on the floor shortly. Every single Member of this Congress, especially those who all signed on to the Defend America Act after Desert Storm, after the Scud attacks, should sign onto this bill and vote for it.”