Slade Gorton Quotations

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

no charts, no data sets, and no analysis identifying Mohamed Atta or any of the other hijackers pre-9/11.

No evidence turns up to corroborate what people think they saw.

I don't know where those 70 field investigations were. The FBI didn't put them anywhere. Nobody in Washington knew about them.

But again, it's easy to say that in hindsight. Almost no one in either party ... said it ahead of time.

basically, with both administrations, I think each of them felt that it had a luxury of time, and it turned out that that luxury was not available to us.

He's got one of the best legal minds in the Senate,

I think it is impossible to overestimate the difficulty in moving a huge federal government with dozens and dozens of agencies from a culture in which information is treasured and kept and hidden, to one of appropriate information sharing.

These are the two best second choices in American history.

The state attorneys general have abandoned the slightest precepts that they're representing consumers, ... There are no consumer allegations in their complaint, and I doubt very seriously that there will be any in the Department of Justice's complaint because there is no damage to consumers. Consumers aren't asking for this lawsuit.

a sacred contract between the federal government and those who count on it for tomorrow.

All 10 of us are seriously disappointed in the F.B.I..

For decades Washington, D.C., has taken more and more control of your local schools. The federal government sends a little bit of money but a truckload of rules and regulations,

The Microsoft lawsuit was totally ill-conceived from the beginning. It should have been a private action because it was primarily aimed to benefit a number of Microsoft competitors.

I'm very happy to have that lead, disappointed that I told many of you you'd be able to go to sleep on a final result yesterday, and that's not quite the case. I'm optimistic about the ultimate result.

In this we're giving the House every benefit of the doubt. And if more than one-third of the senators say ... under no circumstances, no matter what they prove, will I vote to convict, the question arises, do you go through the whole trial?

I don't think that anyone could say that both administrations were asleep,

I cannot will to my children and grandchildren the proposition that a president stands above the law and can systematically obstruct justice simply because both his polls and the Dow Jones index was high,

It is perhaps accurate ... to describe the Daschle proposals as being 'Sex, Lies and No Videotape,' ... We insisted on a complete search for the truth, on the ability for the Senate to decide whether or not video presentations of these witnesses will be permitted on the floor of the Senate.

A government shutdown is not necessary, ... We do have the time to roll up our sleeves and finish the job. The American people sent us to the nation's capital not to argue constantly but to work together for the common good.