Political Quotes

“As always, it is an honor to speak on this floor where so much history has been made, where, after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt stood here in this Hall and announced that was a day that would live in infamy. There have been some great Americans from different walks of life, ages, races who do great things in this Hall. Sometimes we have to take a look and have some time of self- examination; and 9/11--yesterday, 10 years after the worst attack in American history on our soil--is a good time to really take inventory of where we are, what have we learned, what have we done. We know that we have five who helped organize 9/11. They're being held at Guantanamo Bay. The man who acknowledges his role--and most say he was the leader, the instigator--Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is there, a very smart man. He can still be smart and be crazy. A very smart man. At a lengthy hearing during which he was interviewed by the judge in the military commission trial down at Guantanamo Bay--I've been there a couple of times. The design of that courtroom is absolutely ideal for the kind of trial that was to take place there of those five defendants, but they announced they intended to plead guilty back in December of 2008. That was before the new administration, including our Attorney General, Eric Holder, indicated that we wanted to give them a trial in New York City, itself.…”