Political Quotes

“I yield myself 2\1/2\ minutes, because I want to comment on this notion that defense and intelligence is somehow an obligation different than every other. In this budget, remember the intelligence agencies, for instance, have now gotten into economic intelligence. The budget does not just talk about guns and ships and men and women in uniform. This funds the intelligence agency, where we have been told the intelligence agencies have decided to do economic analysis. I am glad they are, but is economic analysis in the intelligence budget of a qualitatively different nature from economic analysis elsewhere so that it should be exempted from any kind of budget scrutiny? Because all this is a freeze. All we are saying is they do not get more than they got last year. It is a freeze, not a cut, that we are advocating. Let us talk about other Government functions; the FBI, faced in Montana with a difficult situation. We are told in the Judiciary that, yes, they did not have quite as many agents to investigate church burnings. We were going to adjourn temporarily to deal with the terrible issue of church burnings. I think putting a stop to church burnings is a very significant Federal responsibility. That takes well- financed Federal agencies. What about Immigration protecting our borders? What about the problem of drug-induced crime? What about the problem of terrible toxic dumps?…”