Ted Stevens Quotations

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.

I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.

There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.

What we have, however, is an issue that has tremendous impact here at home, and we believe that Americans are starting to feel vulnerable, not just from what is going on around the world but right here in the United States.

We feel that we should go with the time suggested by the CBO and that's what we've done, ... I don't know how it's going to come out. John's absolutely right, the first responders need new spectrum, but it's going to take some time to get it to them.

We're getting into new substances that might have the potential for contamination or exposure, leading to difficulty. I think it's something we ought to explore.

Three years ago Senator Dan Inouye and I traveled to Ground Zero shortly after the 9.11 attacks. Governor Pataki and Mayor Giuliani met us and brought us up the river to the site. It was a sad and terrible sight, but it was also a proving ground of American strength, courage, and resolve.

We need to look into the overall structural relationship between the government and airlines.

Luke would have been a big help to us as our captain. That was a big loss.

I am a passive investor. I am not now nor have I been involved in buying and selling properties, negotiating leases or making management decisions.

Catherine and I extend our deepest sympathies to Bill's family,

He has done what a head of an independent agency should do. He's tried to obtain the consensus to move forward under the act, but he also agrees that the act has to be revamped and I look forward to getting his advice as we go forward.

The people that did get out from the storm owe their lives to you and your people.

We take the position that, if we're mandating this conversion, we cannot leave people behind.

It is important for us to get the facts and avoid speculation.

It is an offense, a threat to every person in my state.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is 19 million acres, ... The area set aside for oil and gas exploration is 1.5 million acres. Because of advances in technology, only 2,000 acres of that will be needed for production.

The Defense Department is the largest consumer of oil in the federal government. We must develop our resources in the Coastal Plain to ensure we can meet our defense-related energy needs and reduce our dependence on unstable and unfriendly regimes.

We ought to wait for the scientists to tell us what needs to be done,

We put restrictions on over-the-air signals. I think we can put restrictions on cable itself.

Unfortunately, clinically depressed. I've been told that, because I've just been at this too long, 24 years arguing to get Congress to keep its word. I'm really getting to the point where I'm taking on people even in my own party that do things that I don't think is fair. You get to that point where you're challenging your colleagues -- that's not exactly good. I really am very, very disturbed.

What we are looking at is when the National Guard should be triggered to come into a state to assist, ... We aren't going to mandate it. We are going to ask for a report as to how it should be done and figure out if it is possible to develop a plan for that.

I understand one demanded a new football field.

The stability of some of the nations principally responsible for supplying oil to the United States can no longer be taken for granted.

I've made small investments in these things and some of them have been very successful. Others have been terrible, ... No one ever asks me about the losses, but they have really held up to public scorn the successes, and the scorn covered the people who allowed me to invest with them.

President Reagan achieved greatness in his life. Some might even argue he transcended it, ... He could not have accomplished this without Nancy.

People that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, ... I intend to find out if they're pursuing that activity in our state and I intend to show them that we can fight back.

This is no way to treat a state, ... We're a sovereign state.

American dependence on foreign oil threatens our national security,

About the A-10s, I'm very upset about that, but the system is declining, ... They have to leave sometime.

It's an interesting phenomenon, but the first time I had a date with Ann, I double-dated with Bill Rehnquist,

I hope to see if we can get you confirmed before we go home for Christmas.

I'm sad to say I've been under really tremendous pressure from my side and from the House side to wind this up, and we have wound it up,

But I could have told you even then, we all knew, he was a fantastic lawyer, just a fantastic brain and capability, and that's what we need on the court,

He pioneered a new type of access to Alaska lands,

Governor Hammond impacted more lives than any other Alaskan who has ever lived. ... He was a public servant in the deepest sense of the word.

The love Ronald and Nancy Reagan shared tests the hearts of people everywhere.