Political Quotes

“Well, I would just say to my friend that, at worst, we do not put documents in our socks; and I have not seen the definitive statement on this, but one, at least according to the news reports, and I think that is why we need to get more information on this, one of the staff members at the Archives said he put some of them into his socks. Now, I think that they keep the temperature fairly temperate in that room, and you do not need to warm your feet. And just the idea of a national security adviser putting documents into his socks, I think raises a few questions. There are more questions here than there are answers, and I think we all want to believe the best of our fellow man, our fellow government servant, who, as you said, was national security adviser. But another thing that I think the American people have to ponder on is that he did not, according to the news reports, say, Yes, I have got them until he was called by the archivists, who said, ``You have got secure documents.'' And at that point he said, ``Yes, I believe I do.''”