Daniel Inouye Quotes

The President's Speech Suggested To Me That Were We To Follow His Leadership, We Will Be In Iraq Not For Months, But For Years. I Also Hope I Am Wrong On This.

Most People May Not Think About It, But The Aftermath Of War Is Very Costly. Costly Not Just In Lives, But The Treatment. Because Of The Efficiency Of Our Transportation System, The Efficiency Of Our Medical Technicians, People Are Surviving.

I Do Not Personally Agree With Some Of The Positions That Mr. Gonzales Has Advocated, But That Should Come As No Surprise, Because I Do Not Agree With Many Of The Proposals Made By The Man Who Nominated Him, President Bush.

Yes, Prudently Invested Contributions To The Social Security Fund May Bring Greater Dividends, But Those Contributions Would Also Face A Greater Risk. It Would Be Like Gambling. We Should Not Gamble With The Investments And The Future Of The Citizens Of This Land.

Imagine Yourself As A Wife, And You Have To Look At A Brain-injured Husband For The Rest Of Your Life, And He Can't Talk To You. But We're Paying For This. That's The Easy Part, Money Payment. But How Do You Pay For The Misery? So If We Can, We Should Be Able To Avoid War.

I'm Supposed To Be A Normal, Sane Type Person, But After You Go Through War And Such, You Become Superstitious. I Am Convinced That Somebody Is Looking After Me.

No Times Were More Dangerous Than When Our Country Was Born, When Revolution Was Our Midwife.

It's A Dream Where You Live A Life That's Powerful, One In Which You Can Get Married If You Want To, Raise Kids If You Want To, Get Educated To The Limit Of Your Capacity, And Do What Makes You Happy, Because We All Are Looking For The Good Life. We Don't Want To Go Through Life With Just Fighting, Fighting, Fighting.

Today, We Have A Powerful Military That Serves As A Deterrent, But The Enemy We Have Today Is Not Like World War Ii, Where You Sign A Piece Of Paper And The War Is Over. Today They're Not In Uniform. In My Time We Knew What The Enemy Looked Like, We Knew His Weapons Systems And Such. Today, Your Cab Driver May Be The Person, You Have No Idea. I Don't Know How We Got Into This Fix, But We're There.

I Hope That The Mistakes Made And Suffering Imposed Upon Japanese Americans Nearly 60 Years Ago Will Not Be Repeated Against Arab Americans Whose Loyalties Are Now Being Called Into Question.

If You Run Across A Dog Driving, Would You Ever Forget That? You Could Never Forget That, That Bump. It'll Haunt You For The Rest Of Your Life. Imagine If You Killed A Human Being. You're Not Going To Forget That. Well, I Killed Many.

A Great Nation Betrayed The Principles Which Have Made It Great, And Thereby Became Hostage To Hostage-takers.