Lee Hamilton
Lee Hamilton
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What we can do is prevent terrorists from obtaining the materials needed to build a nuclear weapon, most notably highly enriched uranium.
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Our recommendations are good, and they're urgent, ... they are not intended to be a final solution and they need to be deliberated.
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I hope Indiana and a lot of other states now move to begin to focus not just on the putting together of a voter registration list but maintaining the quality year after year.
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I'm surprised, I'm disappointed and maybe even a little depressed that we did not do better four years after 9/11. It says we're still very vulnerable.
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I do not find anyone today really in charge. You cannot possible argue today that the director of central intelligence is in charge.
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I do not believe the president should have ignored the statute.
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Congress is not working hard enough at the business of legislating. They do work hard at politicking and spend a huge amount of time raising money.
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Tackling long-term challenges can do more than help us avert the kinds of crises that stack up on a National Security Advisor's desk.
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It's important to both Secretary Baker and me that we not raise expectations here. We know that whatever we do will be difficult. We really do not yet know how difficult this task will be.
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I've had an uneasy feeling for a long time that the government simply was not acting with a sense of crisis, with a sense of urgency.
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That's an extraordinary occasion and an historic one,
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that most people would back away from. I know I would.
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The intelligence community goes around the authorizing committees because they don't have control over the money. You need a subcommittee that focuses exclusively on intelligence to have robust oversight.
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You want to disavow labels and project centrist attitudes. Hoosiers pride themselves on being people of moderation and common sense.