Joe Wilson
Joe Wilson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 July 1947
CountryUnited States of America
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Well, the thing that is important to understand in all of this is that it's not a crime that was committed against my wife or me - it was a crime against the country.
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But so far, in the accounts given by reporters about their conversations with administration officials, no such crime has been described. What has been depicted is an administration effort to refute the allegations of a critic (some of which did in fact prove to be untrue) and to undermine his credibility, including by suggesting that nepotism rather than qualifications led to his selection. If such conversations are deemed a crime, journalism and the public will be the losers.
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The government serves the people - not vice-versa.
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I don't think we're safer at all as a consequence of this.
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Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.
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When he published her name-- it was very easy to unravel everything about her, her entire cover. You live your cover.
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I did not like fascists when I fought them as a diplomat for 23 years and I don't like them now in my own country.
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I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.
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But what I have to say to people who might come forward is that one of the great things about our democracy is freedom of the press.
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I have long felt that it is readers and viewers of conservative media who could benefit from a more balanced discussion of what is at stake in our policy and the actions of our government.
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I did my civic duty and held my government to account for statements it had made.
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I know Tom DeLay is a person of integrity. He has epitomized to me what a public official could be.
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I'm kind of speechless, you know. I wanted to cry. They were tears of joy.
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I pledged 27 years ago when I first went overseas to defend the Constitution of the United States. I've done so throughout my career.