Slade Gorton Quotes (20 Quotes)

it is clear that he obstructed justice.

These are the two best second choices in American history.

basically, with both administrations, I think each of them felt that it had a luxury of time, and it turned out that that luxury was not available to us.

This is not a matter for the use of the armed forces of the United States. This is not a matter demanded by our national security. This is not a way that we would even settle the civil war taking place in Kosovo today.

no charts, no data sets, and no analysis identifying Mohamed Atta or any of the other hijackers pre-911.

She has said that she is for the new politics and the new technology, and I am for the old. In fact, exactly the opposite is true.

I think it is impossible to overestimate the difficulty in moving a huge federal government with dozens and dozens of agencies from a culture in which information is treasured and kept and hidden, to one of appropriate information sharing.

For decades Washington, D.C., has taken more and more control of your local schools. The federal government sends a little bit of money but a truckload of rules and regulations,

But again, it's easy to say that in hindsight. Almost no one in either party ... said it ahead of time.

The site also states that Maria Cantwell has not taken a clear position on the Microsoft prosecution. ... freedom to innovate.

The state attorneys general have abandoned the slightest precepts that they're representing consumers, ... There are no consumer allegations in their complaint, and I doubt very seriously that there will be any in the Department of Justice's complaint bec

It seems to me, the FBI has more questions to answer than Condoleezza Rice or former White House counterterrorism adviser Dick Clarke or anyone we've had testify before us so far,

It is perhaps accurate ... to describe the Daschle proposals as being 'Sex, Lies and No Videotape,' ... We insisted on a complete search for the truth, on the ability for the Senate to decide whether or not video presentations of these witnesses will be permitted on the floor of the Senate.

a sacred contract between the federal government and those who count on it for tomorrow.

The Microsoft lawsuit was totally ill-conceived from the beginning. It should have been a private action because it was primarily aimed to benefit a number of Microsoft competitors.

I cannot will to my children and grandchildren the proposition that a president stands above the law and can systematically obstruct justice simply because both his polls and the Dow Jones index was high,

In this we're giving the House every benefit of the doubt. And if more than one-third of the senators say ... under no circumstances, no matter what they prove, will I vote to convict, the question arises, do you go through the whole trial

The most important feature in the briefing is the line that the FBI was conducting 70 full field investigations, ... Fox News Sunday.

I'm very happy to have that lead, disappointed that I told many of you you'd be able to go to sleep on a final result yesterday, and that's not quite the case. I'm optimistic about the ultimate result.

A government shutdown is not necessary, ... We do have the time to roll up our sleeves and finish the job. The American people sent us to the nation's capital not to argue constantly but to work together for the common good.