Political Quotes

“I see the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Harman) down there. I listened to her the other day on NPR. I was the author of the National Commission on Terrorism. They all laughed on it, frankly, and had I not been on the Committee on Appropriations, we could not have gotten it passed. The gentlewoman was on, and I remember the gentlewoman's statement the other day where she said had they listened to the recommendations, which this Congress and almost nobody did, of the Commission, maybe, maybe, 9/11 may not have taken place. I do not know if the gentleman's amendment is the right amendment or not. I do know that 30 people from my congressional district died in the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11. I also know that the first CIA agent, from my congressional district, from Manassas Park, was the first one to die in the attack when we went into Afghanistan with regard to the Taliban. Now, is the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) right? Maybe. But is the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) wrong? Maybe. So I say in the interest of what took place in this country, and because of the fact that nobody listened to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Harman) and also the Bremer Commission, and the fact is we were ridiculed by it when it came out, and the CIA even opposed it and ridiculed it, and the gentlewoman is right, had it been listened to, and I say listened to the authorizers, let us see what the authorizers say.…”