Bob Graham
Bob Graham
Daniel Robert "Bob" Grahamis an American politician and author. As a member of the American Democratic Party, he was the 38th governor of Florida from 1979 to 1987 and a United States Senator from that state from 1987 to 2005...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 November 1936
CountryUnited States of America
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When it's fully in place, it will make us stronger and more secure, ... There will inevitably be a time of learning who your new partners are, what the new rules and expectations are, and during that transition time, we may actually see some degree of lessened homeland security.
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The premature conclusion of our presidential campaign was a great disappointment, ... However, it was not without its rewards. I am proud of the issues we raised, which are now becoming the central issues of debate in the presidential campaign.
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We're not so much focusing on making a criminal case as we are trying to understand what our national security risks are and then how we can harden American and our vital interests around the world from future hits.
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With terrorist groups like al Qaeda, you can't learn what you want to learn about their capabilities and their future plans by taking a picture of it, and they've learned not to use the telephone.
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You know what my grandchildren call me? 'Doodle,' ... And when I'm really good, they call me 'Super Doodle.'
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What I found most notable about President Bush's remarks was that he began to prepare the people for the potential long-term consequence of this action, including the possibility of a protracted military engagement, the hopefully limited collateral damage to Iraqi civilians, and the role that the United States will play after the hostilities cease,
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By continuing to classify that information so that it's not available to the American people, the American people have been denied important information for their own protection, for the protection of the communities,
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And that's what this bill is all about: assuring that each and every voter can have confidence in our elections and that when problems do arise, there can be a determination made about them -- what went wrong and how to correct it so that every vote is counted.
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An error on the part of poll workers pressing the wrong button to activate voting machines prevented many from voting in the Democratic primaries.
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A plug-in vehicle with even a 20-mile range could reduce petroleum fuel consumption by about 60 percent.
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The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of the United States.
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It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.
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I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not.
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The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.