89 Quotes by Christopher Shays

You gotta be a fool, frankly, to go on New Year's night to Times Square, ... I mean, I can't understand why people do that. Just one hand grenade thrown in the air and people panicking. It's just too tempting a target.

Ethics is everything, ... If you don't have a strong moral standing, if you don't have an ethical foundation, you just crumble.

First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot.

The (Veterans Administration and Department of Defense) and the bureaucracies in general still have a tin ear and a very cold heart and a very closed mind,

These e-mails are from some very interesting people,

No. What I want you to do is do your job of coordination,

No. What I wanted you to do was do your job of coordinating,

a real sense of arrogance. Loyalty and never admitting a mistake matters more than the truth. It has a Nixon feel to me.

The bottom line is that the president made it clear we're in it for the long haul,