Political Quotes

“Let me take back my time and remind the gentleman, you can buy about a million times as much computing power today as you could in the 1960's for the same amount of money. Now, when we have experts from our national laboratories that we put there to come up with ideas on defending the country and they come to us and say we would at least like to be heard on the issue of how we have made it a lot more effective and a lot less expensive to shoot down this incoming missile with a different idea, I think we should listen to them. And I would just say to the gentleman, I go back to my Billy Mitchell argument. You had a lot of people saying you cannot sink ships with planes and we do not even want to hear General Mitchell. They tried to scrub the test. This is a democracy. These Members who are representatives want to hear the evidence. I say let's let the evidence be put out there. And if the gentleman sits with me in Armed Services hearings and hears the evidence and then says, ``I'm not going to change my mind,'' then fair is fair. But let's hear the evidence. This amendment precludes us from even hearing the evidence.”