Political Quotes

“That would appear to be the report not from me, but from this morning's Fort Worth Star-Telegram, a very credible newspaper in our State. It is the Air and Marine Interdiction and Coordination Center. I would suppose that is the same entity that is supposed to be monitoring any airplanes that might be coming this way and placing American citizens again in harm's way, but they apparently had time, according to the newspaper report, and citing as apparently a source they talked to, Texas Republican House Speaker Tom Craddick, that they had time to provide him with key information. It is unusual they would be following a plane from Hale Center, Texas, in the Texas Panhandle to Ardmore, Oklahoma, but apparently they had time to do that. As the gentleman knows full well as being one of the signatories of this letter, our concern is that there is a war on terrorism, and that resources would be diverted by Tom DeLay or other people away from the war on terrorism, away from fighting crime and into politically motivated activity of this nature.”