Political Quotes

“And Iran has been doing very well in the training of those submarines, which presents a whole new threat for us, with Iranians having capability in the seas. The question of our colleague and friend on missile defense is an important one. This President changed our policy from the Reagan and Bush era with absolutely no warning to this Congress, to say that we no longer need to have a defensive system to protect the American people, in spite of the ABM treaty, which allows the Russians to have the only operational ABM system in the entire world right now, which surrounds Moscow and which is in fact operational. What we are saying in the contract is we want the Secretary of Defense... to come back and tell us what kind of national ballistic missile system we can deploy now. In conversation with General O'Neill... he says that at the basic we can install a program within 2 years that would cost no more than $5 billion over 5 years.”