Political Quotes

“I was not prepared to talk about Clarke because I am not sure that the whole debate can be dignified by a debate or discussion on the floor of the House. It, from my point of view, is one of the more disappointing things that I have seen. People who are coming out of positions where they have been entrusted by more than one administration with the security of the United States, the lives of American citizens, the lives of American service people, the lives in the CIA, and they very well know that they can go out and they can make whatever claims they want because the information that could thoroughly embarrass them and discredit them, and I believe it exists, is classified. I can tell the gentleman there are few documents that I would just kind of like to take and put in Richard's face or give to the media and say, Now, just like this memo. It is not a memo. Here is what you briefed, not to the Bush administration in an internal memo, here is what you briefed to the press a year ago. Here is the letter of resignation that you sent, I believe, into the White House that praises this President for some of the work that he has done; and now that it comes to be an election time and it is time to sell a book, all of a sudden you are rewriting history.”