80 ordspråk av Lee Hamilton
Lee Hamilton
too complex and too secretive.
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wants to make it more difficult for national security officials to carry out their responsibilities.
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was sent to Iraq several times in the late 1990s for help in acquiring poisons and gases.
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We are a mobile, dynamic society. We depend upon open, accessible transportation systems. Terrorists know that. It's the reason they target transportation, and it's why we must stop them.
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We believe that another attack will occur and we had better get to it and protect the American people. It's not a question of if.
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We certainly learned from Katrina that we remain very vulnerable to an incident of this kind, whether it's a terrorist attack or a natural disaster,
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We don't really have an ethics process any more in the Congress, so that these things are not exposed or considered until this becomes a criminal law case.
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We had a marvelous meeting with the president, ... The president's comments were very candid, very forthcoming and he was interested in what we had to say.
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We have thought about what to do, a global strategy, and how to do it: A different way of organizing our government.
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We take for granted in this country the voting process. It's really a very elaborate complicated process, but it lies right at the heart of the democratic system.
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We want to understand what went wrong and what steps have been taken to make the American people safe and more secure.
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We will leave that to historians.
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We're getting better at this. But we still haven't proved we are safe.
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What struck me after Katrina was we were not as safe as I thought we were,
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What's lacking here is a sense of urgency, a political will to get these things done.
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