I do think that sustained robust assistance for Pakistan's going to be very important for us to help maintain stability in that country.

From what I understand, President Karzai's term ends May 21 and the constitution calls for an election 30 to 60 days before May 21.

I think part of looking at the internal stability is ensuring the population has an advancing economic capacity and an advancing political representation in the state.

This is a county that doesn't have a hospital or a health center. This is a poor, rural county that is being picked on by the Navy.

The natural resources of our country need to be protected, maintained and sustained, and that is the job of all of these land management agencies.

I think the observation is correct. I think by and large the agencies take their mission seriously and they implement them well.

We want to make certain that those are seamless, that those are positive, that they are coordinated, they are not in conflict.

There is a certain appeal to blowing things up and starting over. But there are unintended consequences that come from that.

Mr. Chairman, don't ever offer us a chance to make an opening statement, because we will grab the mike without exception.

I guess, Captain, probably the most famous quote of 2009 will be the calmly spoken phrase, 'We are going to be in the Hudson.'

I have a particular interest in that budget as the representative of the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina.

Climate change is already here. Our ecosystems have changed and you can document it through fire.

I am anxious to hear those individuals who are here to testify, and I thank you for calling this hearing.

I don't have one single penny in any of your banks, not one, not one, because I don't want my money put into CDOs and credit default swaps and making humongous bonuses.

There has been a lot of debate here in Congress about what the TARP funds went to: Was it consumer lending, or was it safety and soundness?

I think we would all agree that is unacceptable.

From our perspective, it does not work and it needs to be removed.

I think that we have to hit this fairly accurately from a standpoint of the size of these institutions.