Political Quotes

“Mr. President, it is hard to comprehend we have been working for weeks to get a couple people confirmed--actually four. One is the No. 3 person in the Pentagon. We just got that done, Clifford Stanley. The Secretary of Defense has been waiting for this person, as I have indicated, for weeks and weeks. This man is responsible for making sure the right troops go to Afghanistan and come back from Iraq. We finally got that done. The nomination of Philip Goldberg I talked about before. He is Secretary Clinton's person to deal with intelligence matters coming before the Department of State. We finally got that done. The sad part is we have two others on which we have been working. They were held up, we were told, by one Senator, but that is not the way it is. We have, for example, a woman, Caryn Wagner to be Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis with the Department of Homeland Security. That is being held up by the Republicans. No. Again, Secretary Napolitano will have to wait to have, in this vast Department of Homeland Security, someone in charge of intelligence. What is that about? It is about people trying to destroy our country--homeland security. The most evil people in the world are trying to do harm to Americans in our homeland, but yet we cannot get a person confirmed who has come out of the committee overwhelmingly. They are holding him up because of something no one knows.…”