Political Quotes

“I thank the President. I would suggest to our colleagues, let's think this thing through. Let's realize that if the enemy is coming to our homeland, the enemy is recruiting American citizens; and if we find an American citizen who has, in fact, joined forces with al-Qaida, our No. 1 goal should be to gather intelligence to prevent future attacks and to find out what that person knows about what the enemy is up to. Our secondary concern should be prosecution. When we interrogate somebody as the enemy combatant, the best thing we have on our side is time. I don't want to waterboard anyone, but I want to keep them in a controlled environment where time is on our side, and I will argue that the best information we have from Guantanamo Bay detainees did not come from waterboarding, it came from the fact that we could hold them for an indeterminate period of time, and through time, they began to cooperate and tell us valuable information. Does the Senator agree that is the concept we need to hold onto in this war?”