Political Quotes

“Absolutely. The POW community has had an effect on the United States Congress, House and Senate, because members of the Hanoi Hilton, being so respected and so focused upon by our colleagues and by our constituents, have come to this body and made a difference. Mr. Speaker, our best scientists sat down and said radar was ``probably the greatest military invention of this century. We may be able to create a system that can evade radar; that can be invisible to radar.'' I have to say this as a Republican. We got after Jimmy Carter. We said that is so impossible, so incredible, such a tightly held secret, this was back in the 1970's, we said Jimmy Carter has done a disservice to national security to even mention that we could avoid radar. We got after him as if he had given away nuclear secrets, because that invention was such a fantastic thing. Mr. Speaker, we built the stealth aircraft, and my colleague mentioned the gentleman that was shot down over Bosnia. I know the opponents to B-2 say that that has no relevance, let us not think about that. Of course, that guy going down in that F-16, that Scott O'Grady, was the reason we built stealth, whether it was in a bomber or a fighter aircraft. One reason we did it was because these SAM missiles are mobile. They are mobile missiles. They move around. Our intelligence thought there were not any missiles in that particular place in Bosnia.…”