Mark Kelly

I was very moved, I have to tell you. One of the first hearings here was Agent Terry's family was here...

I mean, they have the right to know and we certainly have the responsibility to find out for them.

I think when you sit back and you watch as this unwound or did not unwind, and as the Chairman continued to ask questions and was stonewalled, you begin to get a feeling that, you know what? While we keep saying this isn't political in…

In my world, any answer but a yes is a no, so if it takes a long time to explain it, it is because you are hitting on stuff that is a little sensitive.

We need to be the strongest player in the world, not because we want to take over the world, but that we are the only ones that can protect the rest of those out there that are weak.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Only in this town do we really believe that debt is not an issue in our ability to sustain our way of life and our form of government.

If we ever go into a fair fight, shame on us. When we have the ability to be greater than anybody else in the world and defend ourselves better than anybody else, to go into it and saying we just want to be on an equal basis, believe me, I…

I think our ability to build coalitions is dwindling very quickly, when our allies continue to question our ability to really show up and help them on the day that they need the help.

Now, sequestration is going to lead to the smallest Navy since 1915, the smallest ground force since 1940, the smallest Air Force in our history.

We have become kind of a toothless tiger who continues to say what we are going to do and then backs off in the end.

I don't think there is any question about what China's intentions are and where they are going.

This falls squarely on the shoulders of the Secretary of State, the Department of State, the President of the United States.

I think the question that begs to be answered is why did we leave our Ambassador.

So what I am trying to understand is though in 2009, we are in 2012.

It just doesn't make sense.

We didn't put them at risk.

Nobody even read it before they passed it

I have got to tell you, when I am opening the mail if it says it is from the Federal Government or the State government or the local government I say, What are they going to take from me now, or, How are they going to regulate me and make…

You are making it hard for us.

I wish we could hold up the paychecks until this becomes more effective and more efficient and doesn't run $1.7 trillion a year in the red.

I am mad. I am not going to sit here and watch this great country go down the drain because of upside down thinking people.

I represent 705,687 people in western Pennsylvania. I don't know if they are Republican, Democrat, Independent, Libertarian. I don't know what they are. You know what I do know? They are all Americans.

You can't speak for the American people, and you can't speak for these miners.

There is a war on coal. I wish we would stop tap dancing and call it what it is.