Chris Shays Quotations

shows symptoms of suffering the same spiral of delays, reduced capabilities and cost overruns that plagues major weapons programs at the Pentagon.

It comes across as Pontius Pilate washing his hands.

I think if there was a dirty bomb attack in any of our major cities, we would be very unprepared,

We Republicans need to step up to the plate.

We will have a vote, and it will be a fair vote, ... It will happen in a nice, congenial way, or it could happen after a lot of conflict and disagreement. But it will happen.

Enough of us could simply say we're not voting for any more rules until you promise us a fair debate on campaign finance reform.

No, what I wanted you to do was do your job,

The bottom line is we are suspicious, candidly, that there's some huge problem in the cruise industry.

But ultimately, ... ultimately Iraq has to be dealt with.

Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life.

I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.

Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for security warnings. And after an incident occurs, a thorough investigation can be profoundly difficult when the crime scene literally floats away, on schedule, to its next port of call.

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

I think it's time we recognized the Dark Ages are over. Galileo and Copernicus have been proven right. The world is in fact round; the Earth does revolve around the sun. I believe God gave us intellect to differentiate between imprisoning dogma and sound ethical science, which is what we must do here today.

I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.