WILLIAM S. COHEN

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

The mere fear that there is a mole within an agency can set off a chain reaction and a hunt for that particular mole which can paralyze the agency for weeks and months and years even, in a search

Business follows the flag …. Where there is stability and security, there is likely to be investment.

If you give people an opportunity for self government and freedom, most people will reach for freedom

Any arms agreement should be verifiable.

The role of women is not to be circumscribed.

Don't come in [to the Senate] without assets and remain that way.... Go out and accumulate some capital and then try and run for the Senate.

When you have stability, you have at least an opportunity to enjoy prosperity because investment flows. Business tends to follow the flag. When they find a secure environment, they will invest.

Democracy is slow … A king can always outrun a congressman.

As we seek to improve the management of the federal government, we should keep in mind that the government is not a private corporation. What may make sense for a large corporation may not always make sense for the federal government. In our quest for efficiency, we must not lose sight of the reasons why we enacted certain federal programs in the first place.

I don't care how great your ideas are or how well you can articulate them, people must like you before they will vote for you.

Congress ... is far more than the simple, limited advisory council that most Presidents would like to maintain.

Some people would rather dig fresh graves than heal old wounds.

He has slipped the surly bonds of public service.

Congress has chosen to recognize that a president may be forced to pursue legitimate foreign policy objectives by covert means. Such recognition, however, does not mean it surrenders the right to be informed of covert measures so that it can express its views as to the legitimacy of the goals or the wisdom of seeking to achieve them.

Technology has miniaturized the globe, reducing vast oceans to mere ponds. Distant countries are now almost neighbors as our bodies travel faster than the speed of sound and our voices at the speed of light. ... Today the world is not much bigger than a ball spinning on the finger of science.

What did they know, when did they know it, and what did they do about it.

It is not how much you spend on defense as much as how you spend it.

We have to entrust power to someone, but nobody can be entrusted with power. That is our dilemma.

The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.

I believe the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction presents the greatest threat that the world has ever known. We are finding more and more countries who are acquiring technology - not only missile technology - and are developing chemical weapons and biological weapons capabilities to be used in theater and also on a long range basis. So I think that is perhaps the greatest threat that any of us will face in the coming years.

No on should pass an American in uniform without saying "Thank you, we are grateful." Always mindful that they are prepared to risk all their dreams so that all of us can reach ours.

First, we must continually reaffirm the principle that the security of the United States is not, and should never be, a partisan matter. The United States can best defend its national security interests abroad by uniting behind a bipartisan security policy at home.

I am absolutely convinced that there are weapons...I saw evidence back in 1998 when we would see the inspectors being barred from gaining entry into a warehouse for three hours with trucks rolling up and then moving those trucks out.