34 Quotes by William Cohen

The tone, tenor and substance of what you had to say is very different from what we heard before.

The taxpayers paid for this. Right now they're getting no economic value from it. Zero.

Technology is miniaturizing the globe, binding our destiny ever more closely to that of our allies and economic partners around the world.

A plague more monstrous than anything we have experienced could spread with all the irrevocability of ink on tissue paper. Ancient scourges would quickly become modern nightmares.

This memorial is more than a remembrance, it's also a reminder that women in the military's service to America is not new and should never again be allowed to go unrecognized. We don't allow women in service as a social favor; we do not train women in the name of a noble social experiment. Today, women in uniform are part of the national security of the United States, and this isn't a modern nicety, it's a military necessity. . . . Our military wouldn't be what it is today without women.

The more reliant we become upon computers and information systems, the more vulnerable we become to cyber-terrorists who will conceive unlimited ways to cripple our infrastructure, our power grids, our banking systems, our financial markets, our space based communications systems.

That hole in the side of the Cole was actually a hole in the chest and the heart of the American people.

These plans make it very clear . . . that there is no room for harassment or threats in the military.

I'm very confident that the department will be able to carry out its missions as we cross over into the new millennium.