Jack Reed
Jack Reed
John Francis Reed, known as Jack Reed, is the senior United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving since 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives for Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district from 1991 to 1997...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 November 1949
CityCranston, RI
CountryUnited States of America
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I'm very concerned because this could be the first situation in many, many years in which we do not consider and pass an authorization bill.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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The best reduction, the most final reduction, is to destroy the warheads.
crisis exist social
The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.
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The administration is desperate to try to reverse the popular impression that the situation is deteriorating rapidly,
expensive
This is a very expensive and long-term endeavor.
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The insurgents are thinking in terms of years. It took 10 years in Afghanistan to evict the Soviets. We're thinking in terms of months, and that causes problems,
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far enough to really chart out a course over the next several years.
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We tend to take it for granted, ... We haven't invested some money at the federal level, or most particularly, the state level, to have the infrastructure to deliver these vaccines.
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After a brilliant offensive campaign to destroy the Iraqi military forces, we have settled into a very dismal and dangerous occupation.
And that's going to take a long time,
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If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.
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My fear is that there's pressure in the United States that is forcing us to re-evaluate our position rather than what's happening on the ground in Iraq,
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No, no, answer the question, Mr. Secretary. Is that humane?