Political Quotes

“Another point that is being made is these inspectors are not finding anything, and that there is this undercurrent of expectation that it is their role to be detected or investigated; that they are over there to find the proverbial needle in the haystack; that they are there to be Sherlock Holmes when, of course, that is not their mission. Their mission there is not as detectives. They are inspectors. I use the example of someone who runs a gas station. Someone from the Bureau of Weights and Measures comes in and determines whether your scales are operating correctly. Are you running a legitimate business? You show them the record of what your pump is pumping out in gas, and they check it to make sure it is valid. That is what these inspectors are doing. If you are conducting illegal activities and siphoning off gas somewhere, they are not going to find that by checking whether your pump is working right. So that really is the case with these inspectors, is it not, that they are there to check as to what Saddam is telling us where his weapons of mass destruction went, if they actually went there, or were destroyed.”