Political Quotes

“I hope that today in our service to the Senate as members of this committee, we can achieve some of the goals that those great Senators contributed to legislation for the national security of the United States. Mr. President, as I listened to these remarks, it occurs to me that if we were walking down Main Street America today and we were to be stopped and questioned by any of our constituents, candidly, I say to the Senate, they would think this system is in place today. It is inconceivable after the billions and billions and billions of dollars we have spent on our national defense over the last, really, two decades, that a series of Presidents and a series of Congresses have not put in place for the basic protection of the American citizen something to interdict the accidental or unintended firing of an intercontinental missile.”