33 Quotes by Lee Hamilton

Just because we cannot accept what's going on in East Timor, that doesn't necessarily mean that we're the ones that charge in there. I think others can probably do that better than we -- the Australians (or) the New Zealanders, for example.

Our recommendations are good, and they're urgent, ... they are not intended to be a final solution and they need to be deliberated.

I think Senator Baker and I want to do a very careful, a very thorough, and as the secretary said, very expeditious review, and we will do that,

We had a marvelous meeting with the president, ... The president's comments were very candid, very forthcoming and he was interested in what we had to say.

was sent to Iraq several times in the late 1990s for help in acquiring poisons and gases.

Without good voter registration data, you simply cannot conduct a good election.

We certainly learned from Katrina that we remain very vulnerable to an incident of this kind, whether it's a terrorist attack or a natural disaster,

You go back to the drawing board, start all over again,

Now he's making a lot of assumptions there as far as almost instantaneous communication, and it's almost a hypothetical -- it is I guess a hypothetical question. But I heard that statement with some surprise,