Lee Hamilton

I don't think we're losing. I don't think we're winning. I just think we're engaged right in the middle of the war.

We're pulling out of there. We're pulling our combat forces out there. And we're going to do it gradually. We're going to do it carefully and deliberately, but we're coming out of here, in the combat sense.

We're saying that, no matter what Iraq does, we're going to act on our own. In other words, we're not going to give the Iraqis a veto power over what we do or do not do.

You ask how much time we have got, the answer is not very much.

The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating.

You cannot look at this area of the world, and pick and choose among the countries that you're going to deal with.

We believe that the situation in Iraq today is very, very serious. We do not know if it can be turned around.

The 9/11 story included numerous examples of how a mentality of limiting information sharing to those with a 'need to know' in fact kept information from getting to the right people at the right time.

Poor information sharing was the single greatest failure of our government in the lead-up to the 9/11 attacks.

There is no silver bullet or decisive blow that can defeat Islamist terrorism. It will take unity of effort...

The intelligence community needs a shift in mindset and organization.

Amendment offered by Mr. Hamilton: Page 308, after line 24, add the following: TITLE XII--PEACE IN BOSNIA SEC. 1201. PURPOSE OF UNITED STATES EFFORTS. The focus of United States bilateral and multilateral economic, political, military, and…

Madam Chairman, I say to my colleagues who voted for the McCloskey amendment, and who favor lifting the embargo, that my amendment provides a better way to do it. We can accomplish the goal without the negative impacts of the McCloskey…

I certainly understand why many of my colleagues in this body are ready to support the McCloskey amendment. The people of Bosnia have suffered very much in a tragic war. We in the West have been unable to stop it up to this point, and, as…

Mr. Chairman, let me observe today that I think the choice before us is really quite a clear one. The amendment sponsored by my friends, the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. McCloskey], the gentleman from New York [Mr. Gilman], the gentleman…

Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to the Callahan/Solomon amendment to cut U.S. assistance to the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union by nearly 50 percent and to prohibit U.S. aid to Russia for anything but…

I want to speak in support of the Dellums-Hamilton amendment. What we are trying to do with this amendment is to move the Haitian policy in a more constructive direction, and the amendment is designed to help create a better policy for…

As I understand the amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia, Mr. Chairman, it prohibits the State Department from paying U.N. peacekeeping assessment unless the Defense Department is fully reimbursed for its support to U.N…