Political Quotes

“I think that it does reflect on the judgment of Senator Kerry, but I think more reflective of his judgment with respect to intelligence is the fact that Senator Kerry voted to cut intelligence all during the 1990s. Now what we have discovered is that we cut intelligence, we cut our operatives, our operating officers by more than 20 percent during the 1990s, during the Clinton administration; and that meant that we cut all of the people that gave us information because each of those operating officers has stables of people who talk to them, whether they are taxicab drivers or people in a bureaucracy in some foreign country or just people that have a certain insight into knowledge, people who are in the room when somebody bad makes a decision to hurt Americans. We lost 40 percent of our assets, of our intelligence assets. So we had all this information coming in, and we cut out 40 percent of it. So we are like Ford Motor Company cutting out 40 percent of its dealerships and then wondering why the number of Fords sold has dropped dramatically.”