Max Cleland Quotes

Young men and women are dying and being blown up at the very moment the American people are going the other way. - 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

We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave. The present course will lead us to disaster. More of the same just means more precious blood spilled in the desert. - Max Cleland

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

We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave. - Max Cleland

This thing went south fast. One side defends, the other side finger-points, and you get nowhere. - 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

Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I was feeling into words. Tonight, I'd like to let you know, that even before I met John Kerry, he was my brother. Even before I knew John Kerry, he was my friend. Even before I spoke with John Kerry, he gave me hope. - Max Cleland

The toll on the service men and women in a war where a distinct majority of the casualties are due to explosive devices is especially devastating... I've seen the toll that war can take on our troops and on limbs on that battlefield. - 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

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