Pat Roberts
Pat Roberts
Charles Patrick "Pat" Robertsis the senior United States Senator from Kansas. A member of the Republican Party, he has served since 1997. He previously served as the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 April 1936
CountryUnited States of America
believe crisis magnitude military mission nor passes pilots position smell statement
I don't believe that statement passes the smell test, nor do I believe it would be your position that we have no better mission for military pilots in a crisis of Katrina's magnitude than kennel duty,
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I am concerned to learn of the Director's decision to forego this step in the process. However, I spoke with Director Goss and Negroponte earlier today and they both strongly believe that this is the correct course of action.
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I believe that such an investigation at this point ... would be detrimental to this highly classified program and efforts to reach some accommodation with the administration.
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The media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'
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I issued an open invitation to anybody who believes their analytical product was skewed in any way, or if they were intimidated or if they were coerced, that they can come to us, ... Face the Nation.
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especially with the high cost of energy already an enormous burden for our farmers and ranchers.
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Sooner or later they're going to have to be released. They'll come out piecemeal or you can have full transparency and get it over with.
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Curveball really provided 98 percent of the assessment as to whether or not the Iraqis had a biological weapon,
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We have some good young wrestlers. We'll be strong next year.
agreed best complete intelligence phase reference review
We have agreed to do what we already agreed to do, ... and that is to complete as best we can phase two of the Intelligence Committee's review of prewar intelligence in reference to Iraq.
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We have agreed, ... to do what we already agreed to do.
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I think, quite frankly, what happened is they had a leadership meeting the night before, they looked at the Scooter Libby situation, they thought the situation was right, and so they pull a stunt like this, not letting anybody know they're going to go into a secret session,
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I think he was confused and somewhat bewildered at first, somewhat shocked at his circumstances,
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With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles.