Lee Hamilton
Lee Hamilton
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We certainly learned from Katrina that we remain very vulnerable to an incident of this kind, whether it's a terrorist attack or a natural disaster,
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You go back to the drawing board, start all over again,
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We had a marvelous meeting with the president, ... The president's comments were very candid, very forthcoming and he was interested in what we had to say.
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I think Senator Baker and I want to do a very careful, a very thorough, and as the secretary said, very expeditious review, and we will do that,
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We take for granted in this country the voting process. It's really a very elaborate complicated process, but it lies right at the heart of the democratic system.
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If after sanctions, if after a refusal to let inspectors in, you still don't have action, it might very well be at that point that the United States would have to consider a pre-emptive strike, ... That's something we haven't done in the past. Or at least we haven't done it very often and it would have to be carefully considered.
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I do not remember a president having less criticism from Congress than Bush had in his first term.
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No one could order the troops in, they couldn't get the equipment in, they couldn't evacuate the people who needed to be evacuated, ... that was glaringly absent.
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Without good voter registration data, you simply cannot conduct a good election.
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Congress is not working hard enough at the business of legislating. They do work hard at politicking and spend a huge amount of time raising money.
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I've had an uneasy feeling for a long time that the government simply was not acting with a sense of crisis, with a sense of urgency.
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Tackling long-term challenges can do more than help us avert the kinds of crises that stack up on a National Security Advisor's desk.
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It's important to both Secretary Baker and me that we not raise expectations here. We know that whatever we do will be difficult. We really do not yet know how difficult this task will be.
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What we can do is prevent terrorists from obtaining the materials needed to build a nuclear weapon, most notably highly enriched uranium.