I congratulate you from the bottom of my heart for your ascendancy to the Chair.

Intelligence must be accurate. It must be accurate. It must be politically neutral.

But it is a team effort. We are Team America and we are under attack, and we have to go at it with that kind of cooperative point of view.

It's a game which is deadly and which has a very hard time attracting public interest.

As one who actually put forward the first DNI legislation, the role of the DNI is to be the leader of the 16 intelligence agencies that make up the intelligence community.

I think the point you make about trying to keep up with the other side, usually in terms of China and others, I think it puts us at a disadvantage in this country.

I believe that Ray LaHood will be a great Secretary of Transportation.

What is clear about PTSD is that it is a debilitating condition, but if treated early, recognized and treated, it responds to that treatment.

I am overwhelmed by the people that have been nominated for cabinet positions and confirmable positions that come to my office and their quality is just beyond belief.

Thanks mostly to the work of Senator Murray, who you will find is one of the best friends you will ever have, she just got us a whole bunch more money and we all felt pretty good about it--$2 billion.

I think Senator Murray and Senator Akaka would agree with me that there were two things, and we discussed this in our conversations, two tectonic changes that occurred last year.

Government is capable of changing. I think we have a very gutsy new President-elect and I think he wants to see results in the work that you are doing.

we are a Nation of such optimism that nobody wants to admit that... they just get depressed and they can't perform to their ordinary ability

One of the great tests of who I know you to be because of what you did in terms of the Armed Services Committee and the effect that that had on the American people was magical.

one of the tragedies of the care of people, generally, in this country is the lack of understanding of mental illness

I just can't imagine a better choice than you.

I have urged General Shinseki to be a tough advocate for the Office of Management and Budget.

I think the Veterans Administration--although I think it is the best hospital system in the United States of America, which most people don't give it credit for--it has so many problems still.