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Secrecy can spring from the best motives but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.

Christopher Dodd

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Christopher Dodd
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: May 27
Lawyer
Lobbyist
Politician
Screenwriter
Cook County
Illinois
Christopher Dodd
Christopher John Dodd
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Secrecy
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Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.
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Those who count on quote 'Hollywood' for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who's going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.
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Over my 24 years in the Senate, Jim, I've never voted against anyone because of their substantive views.
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There is no question that Iraq possesses biological and chemical weapons and that he [Saddam Hussein] seeks to acquire additional weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. That is not in debate. I also agree with President Bush that Saddam Hussein is a threat to peace and must be disarmed, to quote President Bush directly.
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I am an advocate... of public financing for years. That is the one way to get money out of politics. I believe that would be what we ought to be doing.
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I don't have a right to pick the president's cabinet on substance.
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If you have got high-ranking officials reaching down five levels in the bureaucracy to drag an analyst up to their office to berate them and threaten their jobs because they don't like the conclusions about an intelligence matter, that, in my view, is dangerous.
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There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of that.
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