Political Quotes

“This war on terrorism has evolved through the 1990s. It was not brand-new on September 11, 2001. It started when the World Trade Centers were bombed the first time in the early 1990s, when the Khobar Towers in Saudi were attacked, when our embassies in Africa were attacked, when the USS Cole was attacked. We know that during much of the 1990s, the Clinton administration did not appear to take this war on terror very seriously. Mr. Speaker, it was not identified. What we found out last night was we may never know the decision-making process that the Clinton administration went through as it developed its policies. Because after 9/11, we have had a joint inquiry between the House and the Senate as to what happened, what went wrong, and what went right; and there has been talk about the failure in decision-making, both in the executive branch and in Congress, and in other areas. And we now have a 9/11 Commission report coming out. What we found out last night, what America learned last night, is that John Kerry's foreign policy adviser, Sandy Berger, who was the National Security Adviser to President Clinton, removed highly classified documents from a secure area; and these documents, we are not quite sure what they are anymore, because they are gone.”