Political Quotes

“we have already heard about the tragic accident that happened to the USS Cole. I am sorry the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Fowler) is leaving, but I would also like to pay tribute to her, and I do it in the vein that both she and I and many members of the Committee on Armed Services spent a good deal of our time trying to tell people what a dangerous world we live in, and sometimes it is pretty hard to explain to them that we still live in a dangerous world. I was advised early this morning by the Chief of Naval Operations and by the commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, both of them, of what happened as well as they know. The ship is just sitting there. They are trying to repair it as best they can. Four lives were lost. There were 12 missing and 36 were already hospitalized. Certainly our prayers, the prayers of the Members of Congress, go out to the families of the deceased and, of course, the injured. What is more important is that we always remember that these people are serving us and this Nation and we should always pay tribute to them.”