Warren Rudman
Warren Rudman
Warren Bruce Rudmanwas an American attorney and Republican politician who served as United States Senator from New Hampshire between 1980 and 1993. He was known as a moderate centrist, to such an extent that President Clinton approached him in 1994 about replacing departing Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen in Clinton's cabinet, an offer that Rudman declined...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 May 1930
CountryUnited States of America
people may sound
This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
lying lunch congress-and-the-president
The blame for [the national debt] lies with the Congress and the President, with Democrats and Republicans alike, most all of whom have been unwilling to make the hard choices or to explain to the American people that there is no such thing as a free lunch.
people speech corporations
Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard.
bridges earthquakes airports
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
taken aggravation long
Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
thinking government ideas
It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.
moving communication issues
The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
ifs
And if you do all you can, that's all you can ever do.
country taken home
Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains to be done, Americans from across the political spectrum must come together to develop the next phase of our efforts to counter global terror.
country san-francisco disaster
What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster, .. God forbid this happens in San Francisco.
important politician left
Politics is too important to be left to politicians.