Political Quotes

“I also want to commend the Senator from New Hampshire for offering that amendment. I know it is not germane to the defense authorization bill, yet I think it is important that we begin to discuss some very serious issues that I think deserve to be debated and discussed here on the floor of the U.S. Senate. I was just made aware that the other partner in crime or potential partner in crime, Mr. Marceca, just announced that he has made available 300 additional files, in addition to the 481; there are now 300 additional files, some of them national security files, that he has now made available and has just showed up on an AP wire. This issue continues to get broader and broader and broader and more and more files trickling out. Frankly, not much has been said here on the floor of the U.S. Senate one way or another. I can say this is an important issue. This is an important issue beyond the politics of it. It is an important issue of who has access to secure documents? Who has access to national security documents? And what are they doing with those documents? How to we treat people who do things with those documents? Who ordered them to do it? Who else knew about it? I like to think that Mr. Livingstone, maybe, was just a wild guy acting on his own, and Marceca was another one of these wild men who was off doing his own thing. I know a little bit about how things function in this town, and there are very few things that are run independently.”