Political Quotes

“I noticed a friend of ours, the gentleman from California [Mr. McKeon], just arrived, another staunch supporter of B-2. But I think the gentleman has made an excellent point in that we have an article of leverage. We have a system that gives us enormous leverage. The last thing the American people want to do is have to send marines or infantry divisions to stop an armor attack. The way you stop an armor attack without using a lot of lives is with air power. The way you stop an armor attack with an absolute minimum of casualties is to use air power that has stealth. I am thinking, if you went inside Saddam Hussein's war room or maybe, later in this decade, inside North Korea's war room and you saw them making a determination as to whether or not they should strike American positions, it would be awfully nice to have one colonel in that North Korean intelligence operation or in that Iraqi operation say, 'How about the American invisible bombers? I'm kind of scared of them.' That uncertainty is deterrence. That means you do not start it.”