Political Quotes

“What is appropriate to this gentleman is to put in the Armed Services bill what we need to defend the country. That means we hold hearings like the ones we had on aircraft safety, on Army and Marine ammo, on the needs of the Navy, on the needs of the bomber force, and we put together a bill that we think does that. And sometimes, as in the case of the F-117, Congress is right and the Pentagon is wrong. When we said we need F-117's, they said, no, you can kill the program now. We said, no, we need them. So we do not always agree. But the idea the gentleman has put forth that the Pentagon is always right and that Congress cannot have any different idea about a weapon system, so if we are off 1 percent, we are wrong, I think the idea the gentleman puts forth is highly invalid. I am telling the gentleman again, the increases we put together were 95 percent requested by the Army, the Air Force, and the Marines.”