Failure in leadership from the brigade commander on down, lack of discipline, no training whatsoever, and no supervision were the root of the problem.

Are we protecting warlords in Afghanistan who are growing poppy or producing heroin?

I want to indicate my very deep concern about the fact that tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars have flowed from illegal heroin trade directly into the hands of terrorist organizations, like al Qaeda.

Is my time--last question, I'll be fast.

I believe it would be folly and far too costly to place too much of an emphasis on missile defense and to unilaterally develop and deploy NMD before we even know what defensive systems are feasible.

I was appalled when I learned that a victim, let us say a rape victim, had no right to be notified if her attacker is released from jail.

In 2004, Senator Kyl and I introduced and subsequently passed the Crime Victims' Rights Act.

What we found was that the defendants had essentially all the rights, and a crime victim had virtually no rights.

But you, Mr. Chairman, were the one who said, yes, let us do the hearing, and that counts for a lot.

Mr. Schwarzenegger has to be able to take office. He's got to be able to do what he said he would do. And everybody, we all ought to help that job get done.

There's a feeling that you know it all, the administration knows it all, and nobody else knows anything.

we want to see a democratic Iraq, if possible.

But it's as if it's a wall. It's as if everything comes one way and nothing ever sticks that comes back the other way.

that's $113 billion that none of us thought would be the cost.

the doctrine of unilateral preemption is a flawed doctrine when faced with an asymmetric threat.

I think there are very strong feelings emerging.

We have seen firsthand how ill-prepared our Nation was for this kind of asymmetrical warfare.

The PATRIOT Act is controversial.

There is no question that the danger is real.

The formula under which these monies are distributed really fails to do that.

I would contend that border counties fall within that category of high risk, by definition, and should receive a significant part of first responder spending, and not by accident.

I think you are right on on the threat level, and one of the things that has impacted me is the threat targets are pretty well-known.

With respect to interoperability, it is my understanding that for a couple hundred thousand dollars, a community can buy these vans.

I think that the ideas that you have on pages 4 and 5 of your executive summary really constitute a bill.

These peer-to-peer networks are also facilitating a new era of easily obtainable pornographic material, including child pornography.