75 ordspråk av Jay Rockefeller
Jay Rockefeller
 a man of character, conviction and kindness ... was a classic American intellectual -- a man with a brilliant and probing mind, yet entirely approachable and pragmatic. |
| Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country. |
| And really there was no sense of urgency. That was vastly frustrating to a 30-year professional who had been doing counterterrorism for four different presidents. ... He wanted to get things done and was frustrated by the Bush administration. |
| And that is a classic example of a lack of accountability to the American people, ... Late Edition. |
| Any line of questioning that has brought us too close to the White House has been thwarted, ... We have been undermined, avoided, put off and vilified by the other side. |
| Any time the intelligence committee pursued a line of inquiry that brought us close to the role of the White House in all of this in the use of intelligence prior to the war, our efforts have been thwarted time and time again, ... The very independence of the United States Congress as a separate and coequal branch of the government has been called into question. |
| As both a legal and practical matter, ... he doesn't know what's in them and has never given any direction to sell or acquire assets. |
| Despite the efforts to focus on Saddam's desires and intentions, the bottom line is Iraq did not have either weapon stockpiles or active production capabilities at the time of the war, |
| Director Goss's announcement leaves me with one troubling question: what failures in performance, if not these, warrant the convening of an accountability board at the CIA? |
| Everyone knows that coal mining is very dangerous, but you go into it every day thinking it's going to be all right. |
| Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress, |
| For the past three years, the Senate intelligence committee has avoided carrying out its oversight of our nation's intelligence programs whenever the White House becomes uncomfortable with the questions being asked. The very independence of this committee is called into question. |
| From our side of the table, there was absolute unanimity on federalization, and we're going to write the law, |
| From our side of the table, there was absolute unanimity on federalization, and we're going to write the law, ... 'Federalize' is no longer a bad word, it means people will get on airplanes. |
| Grassley is a very good chairman, very fair, and he tries his very best to be bipartisan, ... But the Senate Finance Committee is made up of a lot of 'true believers' that people should exercise personal responsibility, that the governors will do the right thing... For them, it's about balancing the budget. For me, it's about taking care of a huge chunk of West Virginia... I was a governor, and this makes me very nervous. |
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