Political Quotes

“I appreciate my friend very much. Stirring words, and accurate at that. This being a time when we are recessing today through the Thanksgiving holiday, it is that time. We have so much to be thankful for. One of them is that we have a newspaper article--of course we've heard in the last week or so that it looks like the Obama administration was going to put off yet again the trials of the five charged in the 9/11 attacks as planning them. But the article from The New York Times says that the five Guantanamo detainees charged with coordinating the September 11 attacks told a military judge Monday they wanted to confess in full. And that was a move that seemed to challenge the government to put them to death. At the start of what had been listed as routine proceedings Monday, Judge Henley said he had received a written statement from the five men, dated November 4, saying they plan to stop filing legal motions and to announce our confessions, to plea in full. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said, ``We don't want to waste our time with motions.'' You had one of the detainees, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, tell the judge, ``We the brothers, all of us, would like to submit our confession.'' Mr. bin al- Shibh is charged with being the primary contact between the operation's organizers and the September 11 hijackers. {time} 1540 In one outburst, Mr.…”