Robert Bennett Quotes (33 Quotes)

Most of the information we're getting is self-reported. If it turns out these self-reported statements are accurate, the folks won't feel much in the way of Y2K.

Judy did nothing that the New York Times did not want her to do. They encouraged her to stay in jail.

I'm sick and tired of hearing double-talk.

The question (of adultery) does offend me even though the answer is no. It offends me that we have reached the point where that is political currency and seems to be necessary.

The contempt has been lifted, and I am delighted that Judy can go forward with her great reporting.

It's everybody's backup. If the post office fails, then a lot of people are in trouble.

We are excited about this opportunity to expand our strategic interests in telecommunications, Internet telephony and Internet services.

In fact, I even talked to the parents. They were there at the same time.

Much would depend upon what Mr. Libby said to the grand jury. If he said that he had not talked to Judy about these things or didn't talk about the wife, then he's got a problem.

We have a blind spot in this situation, a major national blind spot.

There's no question the brain is damaged, but the important part of the brain damage is it affects his thinking. It affects his ability to make judgments. It affects his ability to make decisions.

Take charge of your own Y2K life. Once you do your own checking, analyze and create your own contingency plan.

I would say if we can learn to make war, we can also learn to make peace. We can all live together without fighting and without wars.

If you're not thinking that way and stuck in an old business model, it could be bad for you.

The committee is not satisfied with the level of progress in this area and has asked agencies to provide more details on their planning efforts by the end of the month.

The worst-case scenario is that the power grid goes down, that the telephone companies don't work... and other utilities, like water, will fail.

Either you're getting clearer or I'm finally able to break the code. I found this statement to be clear and extremely helpful. I understand it all, which is unusual.

I think the American people have come to the conclusion that they do not want to drive the president out of office just because he's not faithful to his wife, and they turn off all the rest of it,

We want them to completely change the way they handle organs. We want stricter testing and we want families and patients to be notified if there is a problem with a donor, so that the family could make the decision, not the doctor.

There is, I am convinced, a very strong majority if not unanimity among the senators that the president should not be allowed to exit this situation without some kind of formal notice being taken of his behavior.

(The health care industry) is terribly fragmented. That means there are a lot of little tiny pieces. Our surveys indicate there are a number of doctors' offices and smaller hospitals that are probably not going to be ready if they don't put on a real push between now and the end of the year.

I left Penney's in 1969 to join the Nixon administration and I didn't come to the Senate until 1992, but I brought with me a residual understanding of retailing and retailing issues. That expertise was helpful and I did some things, frankly, that were helpful to the J. C. Penney Co. If it's good public policy, the fact that I brought that experience and expertise with me probably contributed to it.

I don't see anything on the horizon that doesn't say the air logistic centers are in the military structure for good.

I've known both men a long time and I just have to be sure before I make a decision. I haven't made up my mind.

We're partners with them at various levels. We have held talks all the time but I don't want to comment.

Our reaction when we got that letter, both Judy's and mine, is that was a very stupid thing to put in a letter because it just complicated the situation.

The family had to watch Josh go through tremendous pain.

It is commonplace for private counsel to retain commercial investigative services to perform legal and appropriate tasks to assist in the defense of a client. Public officials deserve, and from these two law firms will receive, a no less vigorous defense than private citizens under similar circumstances.

They Showtime haven't gone to original production by choice. They've gone because they don't have studio output.

He is not a Citronelle kind of guy. He never let power go to his head.

You can be faced with possibly going to jail (in which all four of those did), possibly being suspended from school and even from the band.

Each year, I take it upon myself as dean of students to go and talk to the freshman band members by themselves. I let them know that in order to be a part of the Southern University Marching Band, they don't have to take certain physical or mental abuse to be a part of the band.

It seems like a crime that you can go out and destroy the environment around this neighborhood. If they came in and built estate houses that would fit in better with the area, I don't think anyone would bat an eye.