Max Cleland Quotes

"If we don't know where [bin Laden] is, how can we go after him?"
-Max Cleland

"I'm one of the three Vietnam veterans that George Bush went after. He came to my state five different times and they ran millions of dollars worth of ads with me and Saddam Hussein up there."
-Max Cleland

"We gave you the authority to go after those who came after us."
-Max Cleland

"The Bush campaign is trying to define John Kerry now, but for my money, the defining moment was 35 years ago when both of these young men, graduating from Yale from favored families, had a defining moment in their lives, ... John choose to volunteer and serve his country and risk his life doing so. George Bush did not."
-Max Cleland

"This looks like a real war zone to me. Thirty years ago, I was in Vietnam, and I haven't seen such devastation since then."
-Max Cleland

"We want George Bush to put up or shut up, ... Stand up to the plate and say, 'This is wrong. An attack on valorous service of a fellow American is wrong.' And he's behind it, and his campaign is behind it."
-Max Cleland

"The American consumer is not chopped liver, ... We ought to know about these things."
-Max Cleland

"[The hearings also came in the wake of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, with significant numbers of the National Guard of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama deployed in Iraq.] It is time we looked after our own backyard, ... We cannot do this as long as we continue to make Iraq the fifty-first state."
-Max Cleland