Political Quotes

“I am kind of a hawk. I was the first Democrat to support President Bush when he wanted to go into Iraq the first time. I consider myself a hawk rather than a dove. I am looking very closely at Iraq and I think we need to do that. But in doing that, is the Senator aware that Lawrence Lindsey, the President's chief economic adviser, indicated in the Wall Street Journal yesterday that the war in Iraq will cost this country about $200 billion? Is the Senator also aware that I had a conversation with the chief executive officers of the airlines last Thursday in my office? The first thing the spokesperson, the chief executive officer of one of the largest airlines in the world, told me was: If there is a war in Iraq, we all go broke. That was told to me in my office last week: If there is a war in Iraq, we all go broke, all the major airlines in America. So the Senator is aware we not only need to focus on Iraq--the military aspects of it--but also what it does to the domestic policy, which the President is ignoring.”