Political Quotes

“I think the first responsibility to the people and the Congress is to defend our people. All other things cannot come about if we cannot defend our people. How have we elected to do that over the years? During the days of the Soviet Union, we used something, either by happenstance or planned, and it was called the Triad: land, sea, and air. Little bit by little bit, the Triad system is being taken apart. We do not have strategic aircraft standing on alert. They are standing down. Little by little, we are pulling our missiles, like the MX and others, out of the ground. The MX will be out, we will have the Minuteman-III, that is all that we will have. So why are we putting all our eggs in this basket? As we look at the three legs, we are deciding and electing to say that we are going to defend America with Trident boats and in these Trident boats, some in the Atlantic and some in the Pacific, those in the Pacific have an interim missile called the C-4. It is not intended to be a missile that will be longlasting. It does not have the range, it does not have the accuracy, it is not really the kind of missile we were looking for, because in this interim period we are waiting for the D-5 missiles. We are asking now in the amendment of Mr. Dicks to put the D-5 in the Pacific fleet as it is in the Atlantic fleet.”