20 Quotes by Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

no charts, no data sets, and no analysis identifying Mohamed Atta or any of the other hijackers pre-9/11.

No evidence turns up to corroborate what people think they saw.

I don't know where those 70 field investigations were. The FBI didn't put them anywhere. Nobody in Washington knew about them.

But again, it's easy to say that in hindsight. Almost no one in either party ... said it ahead of time.

basically, with both administrations, I think each of them felt that it had a luxury of time, and it turned out that that luxury was not available to us.

He's got one of the best legal minds in the Senate,

I think it is impossible to overestimate the difficulty in moving a huge federal government with dozens and dozens of agencies from a culture in which information is treasured and kept and hidden, to one of appropriate information sharing.

These are the two best second choices in American history.