Joe Wilson Quotes (66 Quotes)

Unless the press is prepared to work at it we will continue to be bamboozled by administrations, and people like me who are prepared to speak out will become rare species indeed.

I have no reason not to ensure that the truth is told and I am tired of the way in which the Republicans have smeared my family and myself for no reason other than to perpetuate their lies to the American people.

First of all, I had been retired for several years from government.

I don't know if that's true or not, but you can be sure that a GS-14 or 15 with a couple of kids in college, when he sees the allegations that came from senior administration officials about my family ... in the public domain, you can be sure that he's going to be worried about what might happen if he were to come forward,

I wouldn't say that, ... but I've been known to vote for Republicans.

I'm proud of the service to my country.

She was stoic in her manner but I could see she was crestfallen, ... Twenty years of loyal service down the drain, and for what, she asked after she had read it.

People have a tendency to regurgitate whatever they've last heard and to give equal credence to untruths as they do to truths.

Bob Novak called me before he went to print with the report and he said a CIA source had told him that my wife was an operative, ... He was trying to get a second source. He couldn't get a second source. Could I confirm that And I said no.

And thirdly, just because of the way we've prosecuted this war and how offensive it's been to the rest of the world, especially the Muslim world, we've created an exponentially larger pool from which actual terrorists might be drawn down the road.

My knowledge of Africa and of Niger is almost unparalleled in US policy circles.

I still do believe that the WMD issue was an important issue for us to be vigilant about.

Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

Although some war cynics continue to call for a retreat and defeat policy in Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair has proven that he is committed to finishing the mission in Iraq,

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.