Shays Quotes

#1. First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot.

Christopher Shays

#2. Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.

Christopher Shays

#3. Her lips were hers one moment. And the they were his.

Renee Ahdieh

#4. The bottom line to this is, there are few doctors who have any expertise in chemical exposure.

Christopher Shays

#5. First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

Christopher Shays

#6. Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens
Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of
Dickens

W.S. Gilbert

#7. It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

Theodore White

#8. It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

Christopher Shays

#9. Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life.

Chris Shays

#10. I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

Wole Soyinka

#11. I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.

Christopher Shays

#12. There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers.

Christopher Shays

#13. At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies. With experience, he covers up with better ones.

Lee P. Brown

#14. I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.

Christopher Shays

#15. What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I.

Christopher Shays

#16. The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents.

Christopher Shays

#17. Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

Noam Chomsky

#18. But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

Christopher Shays

#19. Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.

Christopher Shays

#20. The pH of a must will go up as fermentation progresses.

Jeff Cox

#21. I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick.

Christopher Shays

#22. Extraordinary people always inspire others.

Ron Baratono

#23. We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill.

Christopher Shays

#24. But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war.

Christopher Shays

#25. I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.

Christopher Shays