John McCain

And do you think it has been an effective program from your observations?

Well, I think you just made a case for an increase in Arizona and across the Southwest Border.

Well, I will ask the September 11, 2001, families to go into battle again for us.

Then it seems to me, Mr. Chairman, that we ought to go back at it, and we ought to keep going back at it until we shame our colleagues into being more concerned about national security than they are about turf.

It seems to me that the overall policy is so--the word may be 'incoherent,' or certainly, 'not coordinated,' I guess is a kinder description--that we now have an ad hoc decision making process regarding the treatment of detainees.

To me this is outrageous--a kind of 'Alice in Wonderland' situation turning the world of common sense on its head.

Thank you for your leadership.

Strengthen congressional oversight of intelligence and homeland security.

Senator Collins and I wrote to Attorney General Holder and Deputy National Security Adviser Brennan, urging them to immediately turn Abdulmutallab over to the Department of Defense.

I think it is a terrible mistake.

Actually, it has been my experience, Admiral, that when the captain of the ship does something wrong, or something goes wrong on his watch, the captain is relieved immediately.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I think this decision was a terrible mistake which could impact our ability to defend this Nation.

I just saw -- I have been around here 20-some years, the first time I have ever seen a member denied an extra minute or two to finish his remarks. And I must say that I don't know what's happening here in this body, but I think it's wrong.

I don't know what's happening here in this body, but I think it's wrong.

I am sorry I was not here to ask the Senator from North Dakota how you want to have a commission to cut spending and at the same time approve of and vote for $4 billion in earmarked pork barrel projects.

At what point could we face a severe fiscal meltdown in this country?

Does anybody have any shame, I wonder?

We passed a bill... loaded down with pork-barrel projects.

I do not believe that information was ever provided to the Committee.

I am really pleased that the settlement agreement compensates the individual Indians whose accounts I believe were mismanaged.

The management duties became burdensome as ownership in the lands became fractionated.

The courts have consistently held that the United States failed to properly manage these accounts.

No settlement would be approved by this Committee that does not provide for actual payment to the Indians before payment of untold millions of dollars to the attorneys in this matter.

I have long believed that settling rather than continuing to litigate year after year after year is the best course of action.