Political Quotes

“That is why we are concentrating on the multilateral control as opposed to the way we have been doing it which is the unilateral control. Unilateral control does not work. Every report shows that. I also thank the Senator from Tennessee for his comments about the commission that was chaired by Mr. Rumsfeld and the expertise that he alluded to--and I would confirm--that Mr. Rumsfeld has on weapons of mass destruction. Of course, one of the reasons that I am very willing to point that out is to reemphasize the letter that we had printed in the Record this morning from the Secretary of State, Colin Powell, the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, and the Secretary of Commerce, Donald Evans, which is dated today, and was delivered to us, that shows the support of these three Secretaries for S. 149. It isn't a hedged support; it is a very specific support. We appreciate the expertise of Mr. Rumsfeld in the area of weapons of mass destruction and, while these are dual-use items, he gives the same level of credence to our bill as to his report. Another fine line that needs to be pointed out is that in our bill one of the things we did not do was turn the process over to the bureaucrats. We turned the process over to the elected officials. We went to the power at the top. The reason we did that is because there is a tendency among bureaucrats to pigeonhole things, to avoid decisions; and if you build a process that allows them to avoid decisions, they will avoid decisions.”