87 Quotes by Pat Roberts

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.