Political Quotes

“Clearly, no President, no executive branch is going to ever hold a rally in favor of this kind of idea. I think the Senator mentioned Senator Lott. Senator Lott has been invaluable from the very beginning. He said we just have to build in-- whether it is Democrats or Republicans--a new sense of independence. I have tried to say that there is no question in my mind, whether it was a Democratic administration or a Republican administration, what you are talking about are human beings who I think inherently are going to be concerned about something coming out. So out comes the stamp and something is marked ``classified,'' and by the time the rubberstamp program is done, you have millions of documents classified in our country for reasons that have nothing to do with national security. The Senator from Maine has summed it up very well.”