Political Quotes

“we are back in open session, and I believe shortly--in about 40 or 45 minutes--we will be back on course on a very important bill that our Nation cares about, which we are on track to complete this week; that is, the deficit reduction bill. Over the next about 30 or 35 minutes, however, we will be clarifying some of the intention, scheduling, and language with regard to the completion of the report on Iraq prewar intelligence which has been under a great deal of discussion in the past within the Intelligence Committee, and, indeed, a subject of discussion between the chairman and the vice chairman, both of whom will have the opportunity to express their ideas here shortly. Let me say that I think it is absolutely critical as we move forward on this important issue that we get partisanship out of these discussions of intelligence--important matters, important to this country, important to the American people--and anything and everything we can do to keep these discussions above partisanship is absolutely critical. We have been in a closed session, and I want all Members to familiarize themselves with what that actually means as we have seen because we were in that session for a little over 2 hours. It is very important that people do not talk about what happened during that session.…”