71 Quotes by Saxby Chambliss

We started this for the right reasons, ... We're on the right track. It is a very, very difficult and complex track. But in order to get there, it is going to require the presence of Americans for probably a long time to come. You'll see us downsize, I hope, immediately. But it is still going require us to be there for a while to come.

Let me be clear -- the Congress will be writing the next farm bill in 2007 and I am deeply concerned the (Bush) administration is using the current negotiations to reshape farm policy without the full input of Congress and grassroots support,

If we don't change the mindset within each of our intelligence agencies, it does not make any difference how much in resources we commit to those agencies, we are still going to have the same problems there, and the problems are not going to be solved.

I don't know what Katrina is going to do to budget reconciliation overall, ... There's simply no way that we can carry out the agenda that we had in place at the end of July, that we thought we would be dealing with today, just because of Katrina.

I am unsure as to whether or not we are able to get a bill out this week or not.

I have a hard time understanding why someone who is so opposed to displaying our most sacred symbol of patriotism would want to join one of our government's most patriotic institutions.

Had that information been shared with other agencies ... who knows what may have happened?

We've got to keep developing this, ... We've got to continue to outsmart them.

He's going to be grilled pretty good about what happened, how it happened and how far up the chain it looks like it went.