I have said many times we are contributing to their misery by our addiction to methamphetamine and heroin and crack cocaine and so forth.

It actually sounds like common sense, and I think it sounds like a pretty good idea.

I usually get a better result in the end if I am trying to figure out how to do something by asking a lot of other people, 'Well, what do you think?'

It is my understanding that the House appropriators set discretionary spending levels for the Department of Homeland Security somewhere around $39 billion.

You have to find out what works and do more of that.

I want to make sure we are getting our money's worth, and if there is some component that is missing, that we need to be mindful of, please let us know.

Is there something we need to do here at our end on the legislative side to make sure that something like this does not happen again?

I understand that we have begun to allow a limited group of children from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador to apply in their home countries to come to the United States as refugees.

The only thing that is realistic that we can accomplish, at least in the next 18 months, is a--and let us not use 'piecemeal' because that may have the wrong connotation.

Today we take note of an important but often overlooked aspect of our homeland security: our Nation's maritime borders.

the need was for some more shallow-bottom boats.

We literally stayed there as humanitarians on Christmas morning. I thought it was pretty extraordinary.

I think on the Northern Triangle side, our big contribution we can make from my office is continue to fund detachments down there to help in their law enforcement work.

It is confusing, and a long and tortured road.

Two things, each of you.

I think the root cause of a lot of what we talked about here today is our insatiable appetite for illegal drugs.

I think that is terrific, sir. There are three key aspects to that strategy. They include security, governance, and prosperity.

This is an important challenge for the region and for our country as well. I think it is a moral challenge.