Richard Burr Quotes

"They usually pray for the governing body that they make the right decisions during the year."

"Thirty-one states have a 211 presence, but until 100 percent of North Carolina and 100 percent of the country is involved, we haven't finished our job,"

"When you sift through the realities, ... you will come to the conclusion that the right sentence is a life sentence."

"see through the stereotypes, which were made due to a lack of information."

"He (McVeigh) is deeply concerned and always has been about police overreaching, particularly federal police. And this is a case where we now know partly that the FBI has done a lot of covering up, delaying things, not wanting to give over things, and our research suggests that there's a whole lot more of that, and that they're not now being honest that they've given us everything. So we think it's very serious."

"We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts."

"People in this community rejected that. We don't know why."

"Do you love the Tim in this picture?"

"We're not using Waco as an excuse. Waco is an event that happened that many people felt impassioned about. One of them was Tim McVeigh."

"I have never quite been able to imagine how one does it, but I've seen many people do it, and it is a process of gathering one's own internal strength."

"This good young man believed that the federal government was the enemy,"

"Where we are right now is having a considerable amount of evidence that the FBI is still withholding information. What has been turned over and what has not been turned over, together, create a tapestry of what we believe is a fraud on the court perpetrated by the government."

"It is critical that we have a comprehensive energy plan to provide affordable and reliable supplies of energy so that our economy will not be dependent on foreign sources of energy."

"If there are witnesses the government interviewed who suggest other people were involved or that Tim McVeigh was not involved, those are critical matters that would have to be investigated."

"Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror."

"If Tim changed his mind, a petition could be filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, but that's not going to happen."

"He (McVeigh) is deeply concerned and always has been about police overreaching, particularly federal police, ... And this is a case where we now know partly that the FBI has done a lot of covering up, delaying things, not wanting to give over things, and our research suggests that there's a whole lot more of that, and that they're not now being honest that they've given us everything. So we think it's very serious."

"The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security."