Saxby Chambliss Quotes

"I don't know what Katrina is going to do to budget reconciliation overall, ... There's simply no way that we can carry out the agenda that we had in place at the end of July, that we thought we would be dealing with today, just because of Katrina."

"The tobacco buyout comes at no cost to the taxpayers, and remedies the action taken by the federal government that would otherwise have pulled the rug out from under generations of families who've grown this crop."

"I expect Congress to reject them again."

"likely will result in a systemic intelligence failure."

"Timothy Batten is an individual of high integrity and has given many years of service to Georgia and to the United States, ... His common sense dedication to the rule of law, intellect and experience make him a solid candidate for the federal bench in North Georgia."

"Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture. I expect Congress to reject them again."

"America is providing the kind of leadership that the world respects and the world has come to understand; that is what America stands for."

"Every time we have these photographs dribbled out or some expansion of that situation, it is not good for America, ... And we need to conclude it. And getting all of these photographs out at one time is the way to do it."

"Why they failed to take any action is just beyond me."

"Had that information been shared with other agencies ... who knows what may have happened?"

"I don't want to put any farmers at risk under the next farm bill. I want to do everything we possibly can to make sure we don't lose another case that is considered trade-distorting by the WTO."

"But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend."

"Let me be clear -- the Congress will be writing the next farm bill in 2007 and I am deeply concerned the (Bush) administration is using the current negotiations to reshape farm policy without the full input of Congress and grassroots support,"

"America has long been the leader of the free world. But we did not get there in an easy way. Likewise, Iraq is not going to get there in an easy way."

"I think we're doing the right things. We're heading in the right direction and hopefully we're going to have all these markets reopened soon."

"That information should have been given to us, and it wasn't."

"I have a hard time understanding why someone who is so opposed to displaying our most sacred symbol of patriotism would want to join one of our government's most patriotic institutions."