Pat Roberts Quotations

We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.

Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists

I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?

With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles.

unreasonable and largely unsupported by the available intelligence.

When we do, then the people of Iraq will no longer live in fear of his return. ... You can see it in their faces, you can hear it in their voices.

We're facing huge demand increases for food stamps and Medicaid assistance, ... At a time when so much is undecided, I just don't expect those talks to happen.

So far, there appears to be no evidence of intelligence personnel that directed any of the abuses, but the investigation does continue to date, and the investigation is open, ... We intend to remain very much engaged.

She still is one of the three or four most recognizable members out of 435.

She's in the middle of it all. She's having a great time.

Simply put, the round-the-clock helicopter rescue missions conducted by many services across three states, potentially saving thousands of citizens, was not a 'Hollywood role' by our military and Coast Guard personnel,

Most alarmingly, after 1998 and the exit of the U.N. inspectors, the CIA had no human intelligence sources inside Iraq who were collecting against the WMD target,

Now we have this ... stunt 24 hours after their staff was informed that we were moving to closure next week, ... If that's not politics, I'm not standing here.

I have found no evidence to date in the rather voluminous material, floor to ceiling, that we have 10 staffers going over, that there was any manipulation on the part of the administration,

I don't believe that statement passes the smell test, nor do I believe it would be your position that we have no better mission for military pilots in a crisis of Katrina's magnitude than kennel duty,

I am concerned to learn of the Director's decision to forego this step in the process. However, I spoke with Director Goss and Negroponte earlier today and they both strongly believe that this is the correct course of action.

I believe that such an investigation at this point ... would be detrimental to this highly classified program and efforts to reach some accommodation with the administration.

I can't really tell you some of the more specific details that would make your eyebrows even raise higher,

I can tell you, however, that the committee has yet to hear from any intelligence official expressing such concerns, ... If any officials believe, however, that they have been pressured to alter their assessment, they have an obligation, and I encourage them to contact the committee.

He's come before the committee. He's been very forthright. It's the president's call.

He indicates his analysis could have played a critical role

Kansas producers got an early present this holiday with the long overdue decision by Japan.

I think it says something about the spirit of Kansas and of America that we can talk about the financial challenges facing our own farmers and at the same time ask for -- and get -- help for those even worse off, ... Only in America. Especially in Kansas.

I think we ought to take it down -- take the damn thing down,

I think we ought to raze that prison,

I think we ought to be using all of our capabilities in terms of collecting the intelligence we need,

It has been a pleasure to participate in your coronation -- ah, pardon me, your confirmation.

I think ultimately you have to go right up the chain to the secretary of defense or to the civilian leadership of the military,

It is my opinion that the administration is also awaiting the report of the independent WMD commission, part of whose job or task is to take a look at the intelligence reform bill and make some recommendations,

I will not be surprised at any military action that would lead to the possibility that we have now finally killed Saddam Hussein,

Part of that was redacted to protect the Saudis, ... there was obvious Saudi involvement.

Terrorists select their targets and mode of attack in order to maximize the political impact of the attack. And, because terrorists seek to call attention to whatever misguided cause they are pursuing, they need to escalate their attacks making each more spectacular and more horrific than its predecessor.

I think, quite frankly, what happened is they had a leadership meeting the night before, they looked at the Scooter Libby situation, they thought the situation was right, and so they pull a stunt like this, not letting anybody know they're going to go into a secret session,

I think he was confused and somewhat bewildered at first, somewhat shocked at his circumstances,

We have some good young wrestlers. We'll be strong next year.

We have agreed to do what we already agreed to do, ... and that is to complete as best we can phase two of the Intelligence Committee's review of prewar intelligence in reference to Iraq.

We have agreed, ... to do what we already agreed to do.

Those guilty of improperly disclosing classified information should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

there is material in the report that the public should know.

We don't know where this is going to lead.

We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet.

Why is it that on our number one security threat, we balk?

Yet the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, knew of his background. He has a very troubled background.

We have several working drafts that we will give to members as of this week,

We will have hearings on that. Those hearings have yet to be held, and we'll let the chips certainly fall where they may.

While there may have been other bits of information or intelligence that would say, 'Whoa, wait a minute, we need to stop the train,' it never really stopped,

Curveball really provided 98 percent of the assessment as to whether or not the Iraqis had a biological weapon,

especially with the high cost of energy already an enormous burden for our farmers and ranchers.

Sooner or later they're going to have to be released. They'll come out piecemeal or you can have full transparency and get it over with.

Now, as to WMD, it's going to take additional time to uncover Saddam's weapons programs, not the finished product, but the program, ... This was a program designed to be hidden -- hidden by people who knew what their fate would be if they revealed it.

That's not the way to run the Intelligence Committee. We have really politicized it, and I think that's most unfair.

This is not a subject that we ought to be talking about daily in regards to a confirmation hearing. If anything, it ought to be talked about in executive session. But it's not, it's out, and so there you have it.

This is not the type of responsibility that can be delegated to mid-level officials, ... He should have told the president, and it appears that he failed to do so.

You don't want to have a situation where you have capability that doesn't work well with the FISA court, in terms of speed and agility and hot pursuit. So we have to solve that problem.

It was a world community intelligence failure; we can't let that happen again,

It's amazing to me, ... All the stars in the heavens were in the right places.

not needed, not necessary and, in my personal opinion, was a stunt.

not really relevant to what we are trying to do to detain and interrogate the worst of the worst so that we can save American lives.

At the request of my colleagues, ... I have directed staff to examine Undersecretary Bolton's use of intelligence and after careful review, the Senate Intelligence Committee continues to find no evidence of abuse. I am prepared to assist in any reasonable effort to examine the facts, but an examination of upwards of 40 names appears to be an effort to preserve the issue, not to resolve it.

I issued an open invitation to anybody who believes their analytical product was skewed in any way, or if they were intimidated or if they were coerced, that they can come to us, ... Face the Nation.

I'm a former Marine, ... I serve on the Armed Services Committee. No bill that I have seen, even the one that I introduced that went even farther than this, had anything to do with doing any harm to tactical intelligence in regards to that war fighter in the field.

I'm hopeful through the debate on this nominee, and the next Supreme Court nomination, we can avoid the destructive partisanship that approached the brink of absolutism in ideology,

In the bill that was introduced in the Senate, in the bill that I introduced along with some members, we preserve the tactical intelligence part of the equation, ... And so, I hope we can change their minds.

In my view it would have been far worse for these pilots to turn away from victims in their vicinity in order to complete their stated mission as foreseen by commanders 100 miles away and out of communication with a growing crisis,

I just counted up 18 new federal programs. He's an Energizer bunny for federal programs.

Before the war, the U.S. intelligence community told the president as well as the Congress and the public that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and if left unchecked would probably have a nuclear weapon during this decade,

How can we reduce these programs and add $1 billion back into the dairy program?

However long it takes, working in good faith, we will look into Phase 2 and see what we can do and finish that product,

NOW is saying that in order to be a woman, you've got to be a lesbian.

The media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'

Presbyterians are the spirit of the Antichrist.

Every time I get an opponent - I mean, every time I get a chance - I'm home.

I try to help my athletes visualize their full potential, and then get out of the way as they achieve it.

There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived.

Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals, the two things seem to go together, it is a pathology it is a sickness.

And so, basically, we're making a lot of progress,

The committee found no evidence that the intelligence community's mischaracterization or exaggeration of intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capabilities was the result of politics or pressure,