This budget proposes only a modest increase in defense spending at a time when our military is engaged in one war.

Supporting the inspectors in these and other ways is not inconsistent with the position that the administration has correctly taken that the burden is on Saddam Hussein to show where the prohibited material is or what he's done with it.

It's critical that we fully honor the services of our men and women in uniform and that we keep faith in their dedication to duty.

It poses a threat. I do not know how we can assure the security of our homeland when we have insecure borders.

I do not see how you can possibly tell Americans that their homeland is secure if their border is not secure.

We have no control over our southern border. 30,000 illegal immigrants are coming across the Arizona border every month.

We do not want the military on the border. That is not appropriate. It is not constitutional.

I am just exceedingly proud of that.

I would urge you to look at the use of the Predator, and other high tech equipment which we have developed and could easily use along our border.

I want to raise one subject with the Secretary, General Eberhart, and Admiral Ellis. There is a dirty little secret about homeland security that I believe needs to be examined and remedied as soon as possible, and that is the fact that our…

In this day and age, on these issues, with the emerging nexus between suicide terror groups and weapons of mass destruction, it is the height of irresponsibility to make fundamental policy decisions based on what Paris, Bonn, Moscow, or…

I would prefer multilateral talks, but I do not think we can wait for partners who do not seem to be coming to join us.

We can do it with, hopefully, a minimal loss of life, even to our enemies.

The question now is whether or not we are going to deploy a system, which we take steps to assure will work.

I truly believe that in many respects North Korea presents the more immediate and maybe in some respects the greater threat at the moment.

I hope we do not spend too much time today arguing again about who constitutes the greatest threat to us right this second.

In my home State of Arizona, we now have vigilante groups who are forming and because of their frustration with the lack of enforcement of our border, are now taking the law into their own hands.

We have an increasing flow of illegal immigrants, drugs, and possibly--I emphasize, possibly--terrorists through our southern border and perhaps our northern border.