Political Quotes

“I asked Mr. Perry, Dr. Perry, Bill Clinton's Secretary of Defense, this question: Do we have the ability in the United States to stop a single incoming ballistic missile coming into one of our cities? And the answer that is on the record for everybody to read is, no, we do not have the ability to stop a single incoming ballistic missile. Now, I think it is kind of significant that he would say that this year, because after the gulf war, when we had so many of our soldiers who were injured by the Scud missiles that Saddam Hussein launched at us, people in this Chamber and people in the Senate went into a frenzy, and we immediately passed a resolution that said we shall have a defense against a limited ballistic missile attack against the United States by 1996. We said that right after the gulf war in 1992. Well, it is now 1996 and we have nothing to defend the American people against incoming ballistic missiles.”