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We are hollowing out the force. And the concern is, what is the strategy about that real problem?

I think we are verging on the edge of that, in my opinion, right now.

those who would trade a little liberty for a little safety will soon wind up with neither.

If we are not confident in that data, maybe the Congress needs to act to have somebody collect it.

The government has to come in and say, 'How far can this person go to protect their own?'

It is unlawful for a private entity to hack back, and it makes good sense to me.

Well, I mean at some point in time there has got to be a resolution to this thing, and if we need to write a resolution to the law, then we need to write a resolution to the law.

Our prison population went from 300,000 in 1975 to over two million today.

Yes, the homeless are not fully picked up, you are absolutely right, in the Census data.

the best way to bring down the cost of the SNAP program is to put people to work.

But there is absolutely no way they can take the place of SNAP.

millions of jobs that we once had 25 years ago have disappeared because of our terrible policy of shipping so many manufacturing jobs

I want to support those parents that are making some progress, and I don't think we ought to be taking these benefits away.

We cannot and we will not separate SNAP from the farm bill.