Political Quotes

“we leave today for the President's Day Recess. We leave at a time where we have our troops committed in Iraq, we have our troops committed in Afghanistan, where, in the last 48 hours there have been reports that radical Islamists have perhaps been plotting an attack to assassinate the President of the Philippines, where al Qaeda in Iraq has said that they are going to launch new attacks or additional attacks against Israel, against Jerusalem, where there have been arrests in Denmark of individuals perhaps planning to assassinate, murder the cartoonists, their declaration of war by Hezbollah. And we're going back home without extending the Protect America Act. It's unilateral disarmament. The head of our intelligence community has said that the Protect America Act, that the authorities provided under FISA have been the tip of the spear in keeping America safe. But it is not only about keeping America safe, because the information, the intelligence that we have gathered under the Protect America Act, under FISA, over the last 6 years have kept America safe, but has also enabled us to identify threats and potential attacks against our allies. And what this now does, this unilateral disarmament, means that an important tool in keeping America safe and our allies safe expires on Saturday night. If you take a look at what's happened here, it's the day after September 11.…”