Word: tr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...TR: I think it was more of a leadership challenge, and for that I take absolutely no responsibility. My huge disappointment is that it’s not as if my team and others who were still in the department had not anticipated there might be a time when the state and local resources are overwhelmed by a catastrophic event. I regret, frankly that I wasn’t in charge because I think we would have done things differently. Procedures and protocols are not sexy stuff, but there are certain operational structures that we built to handle precisely that...
...TR...
...TR: I would like to help the Republican Party find its voice. People are worried about our messengers, but before we have a messenger we better figure out what our message is. I would [also] like to work with men and women on both sides of the aisle who bring a respect and civility to political discourse that I think we’ve abandoned. There are so many issues out there that are controversial and neither party has been willing to invest the political capital to solve them. I’d like...
...TR: I’m not going to respond specifically to Cheney because I think the White House has done that. The one caveat I would say with regard to how the administration has begun to handle this is that to call terrorist attacks ‘manmade disasters’ doesn’t make sense. What I’m concerned about is that the characterization of our effort against these extremists has rhetorically been minimized. I haven’t seen anything that President Obama has done yet that makes me fearful that we will be less...
...TR: I said a long time ago that the reality of identifying and returning to their country of origin the X million of illegals who are here is a fantasy. We need to face up to the reality that Congress and Presidents since the mid-80s have failed to deal with the issue. Now is an opportunity to forge a bipartisan solution. We need to find some way to legalize their presence; not [by] granting them citizenship-we may put them at the end of the line-but not [by] sending them all back...