33 Quotes by Lee Hamilton

That's just not something that fits in here.

Congress is not working hard enough at the business of legislating. They do work hard at politicking and spend a huge amount of time raising money.

Tackling long-term challenges can do more than help us avert the kinds of crises that stack up on a National Security Advisor's desk.

It's important to both Secretary Baker and me that we not raise expectations here. We know that whatever we do will be difficult. We really do not yet know how difficult this task will be.

I've had an uneasy feeling for a long time that the government simply was not acting with a sense of crisis, with a sense of urgency.

That's an extraordinary occasion and an historic one,

that most people would back away from. I know I would.

The intelligence community goes around the authorizing committees because they don't have control over the money. You need a subcommittee that focuses exclusively on intelligence to have robust oversight.

I'm surprised, I'm disappointed and maybe even a little depressed that we did not do better four years after 9/11. It says we're still very vulnerable.