Political Quotes

“the result of this year's round of BRAC decisions adversely affected my own district in Indiantown Gap, heretofore a vital part of our national defense structure, which has been modified downward, downsized, as it were, by the decision. You would think then that I would stand here and support with all my heart and vigor the resolution that is at hand, but I take the opposite view. I supported the initial concept of BRAC and its initial coming into being and voted for it. It is unseemly now of me to say that, because it has affected perhaps adversely my own back yard, that the concept is wrong, that the decisionmaking was flawed, that the concept is inappropriate. I believe very strongly that the people in my district who were affected by this latest decision of the BRAC are going to be able to rally to the cause of softening the blow and of finding alternative ways of continuing the enterprises in which they were involved in support of some of the activities of the Indiantown Gap facility. In short, they will be resilient enough to understand that we cannot have a nationwide concept of downsizing our bases across the Nation and across the world except for our own. Therefore, I will vote against this resolution.”