Political Quotes

“Let me just suggest that under the formula he has offered the F-117 stealth aircraft would not be with us in the numbers it is with us today because of the fact that program was put forth by Congress over the objections of the administration and because it is such a high-tech program it cost a lot per job. But that aircraft did much more work in the Desert Storm operation than any of the conventional aircraft. It had stealth capability. It was highly valuable. So we have a very arbitrary equation that the gentleman has tried to stick in in an attempt to embarrass the Committee on National Security, and I am just here to tell the gentleman we took requests from all the services. We had $15 billion in requests on system; over 95 percent commonality of the additional spending was in fact spending that was requested by the services, and ultimately we only put in about $6 billion in additional funds in modernization.”