Bob Graham People Quotations

I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline.

The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.

The American people do not have the information upon which they can hold the administration and responsible agencies accountable. I call that a coverup.

The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.

I would extend the unemployment benefits. Many people have been weeks and weeks without being able to find a job no matter how hard they search.

The people who are responsible for taking action are the same people who wrote the intelligence information that was submitted to the president.

People might have disagreed with him, but they recognized that his views came from a deep and creative mind.

It is, for all intents and purposes, a rest-of-your-life decision, ... I have loved public service, and I have loved being in the United States Senate serving the people of Florida. The question is: is this what I wish to do for the rest of my life or are there other things I want to accomplish.

What I found most notable about President Bush's remarks was that he began to prepare the people for the potential long-term consequence of this action, including the possibility of a protracted military engagement, the hopefully limited collateral damage to Iraqi civilians, and the role that the United States will play after the hostilities cease,

Tom DeLay and the other leadership of the House of Representatives are not going to impeach George W. Bush, ... The good news is that in November of 2004, the American people will have a chance to both impeach and remove George W. Bush in one step.

a serious question as to the credibility of the United States in the world and undercutting of confidence of the American people in the veracity of their government.

This president failed to tell the American people what he knew about the consequences of military victory in Iraq,

At least two people have been killed who were involved in this. And we don't know how many others have been compromised. It's important that we understand what happened so that we can be in position to work with the administration, with the intelligence community, to reduce the chances of it happening again,

Education needs to be a national priority, particularly getting class sizes down and hiring more teachers and helping with school construction, ... He's been emphasizing the importance of a patient's bill of rights for those people who get their health care from an HMO (health maintenance organization) and a prescription medication benefit. These are not ideas that just were sprung on in the last few days.

If you think back to some of the Democratic governors who you are most proud of, people like LeRoy Collins, Reubin Askew and Lawton Chiles, Jim is in that mode, ... He is smart. He is a person with a great deal of inner strength and confidence.

By continuing to classify that information so that it's not available to the American people, the American people have been denied important information for their own protection, for the protection of the communities,

Combat operations haven't ended and President Bush's parsing of words does nothing but damage any confidence the American people have in their government's policy in Iraq,