Lee Hamilton
Lee Hamilton
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It is a glaring error four years after 9/11. Still exists. Not resolved. There are bills pending in Congress but they're far from enactment,
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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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I do not remember a president having less criticism from Congress than Bush had in his first term.
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If after sanctions, if after a refusal to let inspectors in, you still don't have action, it might very well be at that point that the United States would have to consider a pre-emptive strike, ... That's something we haven't done in the past. Or at least we haven't done it very often and it would have to be carefully considered.
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He chose not to do that. He chose to act by himself.
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I think Senator Baker and I want to do a very careful, a very thorough, and as the secretary said, very expeditious review, and we will do that,
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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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Our recommendations are good, and they're urgent, ... they are not intended to be a final solution and they need to be deliberated.
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Just because we cannot accept what's going on in East Timor, that doesn't necessarily mean that we're the ones that charge in there. I think others can probably do that better than we -- the Australians (or) the New Zealanders, for example.
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He hasn't got much of what he wanted. But on the other hand, Congress hasn't done much of anything this year.
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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 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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You go back to the drawing board, start all over again,
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Without good voter registration data, you simply cannot conduct a good election.