These are critical posts in one of our most important intelligence organizations, vacated not because of misconduct or failure, but because of the whims of a political provocateur whose public record is filled with hate and conspiracies.

The safeguards we put in place, the oversight this body provides, only work if intelligence officers know that they can tell the truth without losing their jobs.

I just want to remind people that we still have the death penalty here in the state of Utah.

If analysts believe their careers will be destroyed for offering inconvenient assessments, then we will only get the intelligence the White House wants.

I just wanted them to know that their previous leadership had ridden over them, but I was going to ride with them, and I was going to be a part of helping them do their jobs again.

Sir, because you’re gonna have to have somebody who’s tough enough to do it.

I don’t know how they did that. I don’t know how they sat there and facilitated that.

'It will impact families and you’ll need somebody who can talk about it and that will visit with the American people about why we’re doing what we’re doing, and that will go out and tell the stories of all the victims and tell stories of…

It should end today. Return the hostages, end the violence. Today. I think it should have been over months ago. It is horrific.

Americans are answering their country’s call to serve and help remove murderers, pedophiles, rapists, terrorists, and gang members from our country.

You got over the qualifications bar easily, but my worries about the direction of HHS made me question you very significantly on your backbone, a trait that is not in long supply in this town. And then when I voted against your…

We knew children were going missing.

I don’t want to lose any more people to Palm Beach.

They didn’t even try to close the border.

There is no doubt that the people of New York and the nation see the continued carnage that is happening and are deeply, deeply disturbed and want it over, and believe it has gone on way too long.

Again, no concern about your qualifications. I had concern about your backbone, and I was wrong, and I apologize to you for being wrong.

That story about this hunting dog had been used against me in political campaigns.

I think one of the biggest disservices they did to the country was not fulfill the mission of what the department was established for; it literally is to secure the homeland.