"Help me create some assurance here that you are in the process now or have some ability to ensure."
"I certainly support and believe that we need to keep the two intertwined, again, but I think it is flexibility that is the key here."
"That tension is always there, and it is a challenge, I think, to try to navigate that for any issue, including homeland security."
"Alaskan oil is an economic driver for the entire West Coast."
"The point I think Senator Paul is making is: How are these expenditures managed? What are really the capabilities and needs?"
"I am sure if Senator Landrieu was here she would want to add a zero to her number."
"As a former mayor, we operated an emergency management system and worked with FEMA and worked with a lot of different groups."
"I think, Mayor, you would probably agree with that in a broad sense, not the specifics, but that last statement."
"We live in a time that cries out for innovation, but unfortunately, we have to create the innovation within a bureaucracy."
"Thank you all very much. I appreciate your time and thank you for being at the panel here."
"We probably do not do enough of this, and it is something I am trying to do with this Committee and another committee that I chair, and that is better oversight not just when something bad happens but..."