Political Quotes

“I appreciate the gentleman's courtesy and his leadership on this, and I think he laid it out very clearly. This is an imaginary problem, but it is an area that actually needs to have some attention to it. He referenced recent problems in terms of potential drug abuse. You know they found the cheating earlier because they were investigating drug abuse when they found out that there was cheating on the readiness test. I would advise my colleagues to read Eric Schlosser's ``Command and Control,'' a fascinating study about the history of American nuclear weapons and problems that we have had, mistakes that were made, and near misses. There are serious issues that we need to be thinking in terms of the readiness and how it goes forward. We need to think clearly about what we do in the future, what is the right level of deterrence, and how are we going to adequately analyze it. 454 land-based missiles are not necessarily a magic number that we should be freezing on a permanent basis.…”