Political Quotes

“the Nation is talking about Dan Rather, CBS, and the false National Guard memos. Republicans are saying that he misled the Nation, that it is a scandal that threatens our body politic. Congressional Republicans are talking about an ethics investigation. And yesterday on a radio show, Bill Bennett said the Dan Rather incident went beyond bias. He said, ``This is corruption.'' Let me tell the Members something. Dan Rather is going to get a whopping, and he deserves it. CBS has a black eye, and they earned it. There is no excuse for what happened. However, all this outrage from the self-righteous right wing of this country has taken hypocrisy to a new low. Let me ask my colleagues where was the moral outrage and where is the moral outrage when the President of the United States here in the State of the Union at this podium used falsified evidence to allege in his State of the Union that Iraq had attempted to purchase yellow cake uranium from Nigeria? Where is their moral outrage when Condoleezza Rice and Dick Cheney repeatedly link Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, all the while knowing that no evidence supports the claim? Where is their moral outrage when our President said we would find tens of thousands of pounds of chemical and biological weapons when we invaded Iraq, even though he knew there was no absolute proof?”