Bob Graham
Bob Graham
Daniel Robert "Bob" Grahamis an American politician and author. As a member of the American Democratic Party, he was the 38th governor of Florida from 1979 to 1987 and a United States Senator from that state from 1987 to 2005...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 November 1936
CountryUnited States of America
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The president is clearly making a judgment that it is more important for us to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan than it is to deal with the very serious problems that we have in the United States.
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We should first give the Syrians and the Lebanese the opportunity to clean up their own house, ... That is a more serious threat to the United States in my judgment than Saddam Hussein.
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I have made the judgment that I cannot be elected president, ... All of those things combined to make it difficult for us to have the time and to close the gap in organization and fund raising -- which have led to this difficult decision.
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It is not constructive to have two of your most important agencies perceived as having a fight, almost a children's playground fight, ... This is going to be a difficult, challenging period, and we all need to act like adults.
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It is not always easy for a Cuban-American to be a vocal Democrat in Miami-Dade County,
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When it's fully in place, it will make us stronger and more secure, ... There will inevitably be a time of learning who your new partners are, what the new rules and expectations are, and during that transition time, we may actually see some degree of lessened homeland security.
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People might have disagreed with him, but they recognized that his views came from a deep and creative mind.
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We've just had a case in which some of our important national secrets have been stolen over a period of 15 years,
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The president of the United States can't be expected to be an intelligence analyst and a case officer,
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To the best of my recollection, there is nothing inconsistent or contradictory in that testimony and what Mr. Clarke has said this week,
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The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of the United States.
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It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.
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I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not.
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The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.