"This agency that you run is broken, badly, and it needs your attention."
"I want to ask your commitment to work with me with the sense of urgency this issue deserves to advance that legislation."
"Yes, Trump brings a lot of this on himself."
"If you look at politics across the country, it is mean, it's small, it's petty and it's personal."
"We needed to modernize our nuclear capability for some time. So, the fact that the president is going down that road I think is very, very important for the nuclear arsenal of the United States."
"This notion that the president is doing it either by tweet or by off the cuff remarks is a bit concerning I think to our South Korean allies and certainly our allies in the region."
"I think the Mattis Doctrine of making sure they understood we had the right military not only personnel but capability in the region to do bad things that oh, by the way, Kim Jong-un, if you try anyth..."
"We do not support cuts to the farm bill."
"Some notion that this is Trump against the Democrats or something I think is completely wrong. We have to look at what are the underpinnings of why we got to where we were and I disagreed with his fir..."
"All of the rhetoric surrounding the emotion of what the president said six months or 12 months ago, if you like Trump or don't like Trump really should be irrelevant on the ruling. The national securi..."
"Remember the 9/11 hijackers, some of those were students who were here on student visas."
"Odd and a bit clumsy."