Political Quotes

“I appreciate that. I will be quick because as hard as Senator Lieberman and I have worked, Senator Inhofe has worked 10 times as hard. I do not want to take up his time. That has been my concern with the Army, that they have not made tough decisions, not that they were not studying this issue at the request of DOD when they visited with them that they may be canceling this program. That is No. 1. The reason I have some concerns with moving forward this study--by the way, I understand the Army is already moving forward and studying this; they are doing the study right now--is it is very clear to me the Department of Defense is canceling this contract. A study can go forward, but they are canceling the contract. We can say we do not want you to cancel the contract. We can say a lot of things. But they are going to cancel this contract, and we are spending $1.5 million a day on a contract they are going to cancel. The President has been very clear about that. We can get into a big fight. My problem is twofold. No. 1, I think they are right. Even that aside, even if I think they are wrong, if we fight this thing out, if we have a big to-do, we are pushing this system back to gosh knows when we are going to get this artillery piece.”