Political Quotes

“I wanted to mention one other thing that the Republican leadership placed in this National Security Revitalization Act, H.R. 7, that is related to the safety of the American people. We stated in this act that we shall deploy national ballistic missile defense systems and theater missile defense systems. We live in an age of missiles. Dozens of countries now are developing ballistic missiles. We cannot avoid that, we cannot deny it. We cannot say, ``That is war in the heavens, and we are not going to participate,'' because those missiles go up into the sky but they come down and they land in cities, they land on military bases, they land in the theaters where our young people in uniform serve. We live in an age of missiles. We have to realize that, just like our forebears learned at the start of the century that we had entered the age of machineguns and we had entered the age of tanks and armor, and we had to adapt to that. We still had a few old generals who wanted to keep the cavalry because they loved the cavalry. We had cavalry training operations up into the 1930's. Some of them said, ``Boys, we just want to get faster horses, that is the answer.'' But that was not the answer. The Democrat leadership has been reluctant to acknowledge that we live in an age of missiles.”