Political Quotes

“I think it is clear now that as we enter this new century that we entered with such great optimism a few months ago that this century is going to be as dangerous as the last one in which we lost 619,000 Americans killed in battlefields around the world. Going into this new century, it is more important than ever that we develop what I would call broad military capability. And that means that we, and I think Democrats and Republicans on the Committee on Armed Services understood and marked up a bill, that toward those ends that we must have the ability to deter and, if necessary, to fight a number of different types of conflicts. That means that we have to be able to stop a conventional armored attack like the one that was launched by Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War. We have to be able to handle a guerilla warfare operation. Obviously we have to be able to handle a terrorist and to deal a blow to those who would strike us on our homeland. We have to stop this new threat, this emerging threat of incoming ballistic missiles, the first of which killed our troops in the Gulf War almost a decade ago, in fact, more than a decade ago. So we have to have broad military capability.”