Political Quotes

“I want to read another paragraph or two from the Dallas Morning News. This is no left-wing newspaper. This is the Dallas Morning News, a major newspaper in the President's home State. They said at the beginning of their editorial: A time comes in most administrations when supporters tell the President he has a problem. Bob Dole told Ronald Reagan that he should worry about the deficit. Tip O'Neill told Jimmy Carter that he had better improve his icy relationship with Capitol Hill. And George W. Bush told his father that White House chief of staff John Sununu needed to go. The supporters find themselves like skunks at the garden party. They back the President but see a problem. And they decide to speak out. We find ourselves in that position with President Bush and the war in Iraq. We supported the President when he ran for office. We backed the war in Iraq. But now we wonder, what happened?'' What happened is this, that the American people and this Congress were given information that was false and we were encouraged to believe something that was not true. There is no evidence that Saddam Hussein, as bad as he was, as evil and despicable as he was, had anything to do with the attack upon the United States of America. And the American people needed to know that before our sons and daughters were sent to war in Iraq. It is true that Osama bin Laden was responsible. It is true the Taliban were responsible.…”