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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The president is clearly making a judgment that it is more important for us to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan than it is to deal with the very serious problems that we have in the United States.
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We should first give the Syrians and the Lebanese the opportunity to clean up their own house, ... That is a more serious threat to the United States in my judgment than Saddam Hussein.
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I have made the judgment that I cannot be elected president, ... All of those things combined to make it difficult for us to have the time and to close the gap in organization and fund raising -- which have led to this difficult decision.
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We failed to see relationships that we should have. We failed to communicate from one agency to the other. Those are part of what we are learning today,
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We have no intention to let this incident preclude us from continuing those flights.
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What the president is insisting upon are not new ideas, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.
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very effective in taking a question and then elaborating on issues that are largely irrelevant to the question in order to chew up the clock.
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Yesterday in Palm Beach County, Florida, the 'oops' factor again reared its ugly head, casting doubt in the minds of many Floridians about whether or not their vote was actually counted,
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We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.
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The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.
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I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.
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We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.
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I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.
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Its 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.