Political Quotes

“The Times Square Bomber, nobody interrupted that plot. The guy did not know how to set the bomb off. We are lucky as hell the bomb did not go off. So do not stand here and tell me that we have got it right, because we have not. And here is the point: We never will always get it right. I am not saying that as criticism. Because we are going to get hit again. We cannot be right and lucky all of the time. To those who are trying to defend us, the one thing I do not want to do is micromanage the war. Here is the political dynamic. You have got people on the left who hate the idea of saying ``the war on terror.'' If you left it up to them, they would never, ever use the military, they would always insist that the law enforcement model be used because they do not buy into the idea of we are at war. So you have got one part of the country, a minority, that wants to criminalize the war. If we ever go down that road, woe be unto us. You have got people on my side--the Senator is right about this. They have gone the other way. If you left it up to people on my side, there would be a law passed tomorrow that you could never, ever read a Miranda right to a terrorist caught anywhere in the United States. I do not agree with that way of thinking. To my fellow members of the U.S. military, you have not failed at Guantanamo Bay. You have not failed.…”