"I want to keep an open mind on the merits of any proposal to improve our national cybersecurity."
"I look forward to working with each of you to ensure that we strengthen America's cybersecurity against all types of threats."
"I appreciate today's witnesses and the time and attention they have each dedicated to protecting our Nation's information and critical infrastructures."
"Congratulations on truly life's greatest experience of becoming a father, and it is the best job in the world."
"We need a strong leader in the White House to defeat the inertia that pushes investments in cybersecurity down the road."
"Only within the White House can we break down agency silos to ensure that we have a 'whole of nation' effort to protect our networks."
"We need a National Cyber Director in the White House to coordinate incident response."
"Those people, respectfully, disregard history, as Congress has helped to guide White House structure in the past when the moment demanded it."
"It scares me because every day I wake up and see our adversaries making gains in cyberspace."
"I support a Cyber Director, as Congressman Langevin and my good friend Congressman Ruppersberger both have reminded me over the years how I was just wrong about this."
"What I find this bill does that I think was different than previous discussions is that it doesn't expand government, which I'm really concerned about, it focuses government."
"Imagine if you take the quarterback and not let that quarterback train with the football team all year until the first game you put him out on the field. We're going to have problems."