Duncan Hunter

I may not be a scientist, but as a politician, I can tell when someone is trying to pull the wool over my eyes.

If you want to quote somebody who's been there, feel free to quote me. If you want to talk about it, feel free to come to my office. And if you want to hold up pictures of families, hold up pictures of mine because they've been impacted by…

First, I was in the Marine Corps. I did two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. I didn't do anything exceptional; but if anybody else has served in Afghanistan, I will yield to you right now. If anybody in this Congress who has served in…

Shipping in the Suez Canal is down 10 percent, due to piracy concerns, an amount equal to the downturn in the canal's usage caused by the downturn in the world's economy.

Last year, piracy caused between $7 billion to $12 billion in damage to our world's economy.

Article 1, section 8 of our Constitution clearly gives Congress the ability to define and punish piracy and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations.

However, we have not--seen a resurgence of piracies in ways not seen since the 19th century.

These unmanageable mandates constitute a federal overreach into our schools.

We must work together to enact meaningful education reforms that encourage, rather than stifle, innovation and local flexibility.

I fundamentally believe that education is a local function, a state responsibility, and finally a federal concern.

We'd knock on doors, asking, `Do any of you read the reports? Who reads these reports and this paperwork that comes back from the states...'

We need to allow our educators the flexibility to decide what is best for schools in their communities.

we are paying more per kid than I think any other nation if you add everything together.

So we are doing it for these other nations' interest?

If you are not doing it for any particular purpose that meets a standing threat, then why put the money there at all?

we're the House of Representatives. And when we cannot call a government agency on behalf of our constituents, something is severely wrong with the structure of government.

By spending almost a billion dollars on something we are not going to produce?

The events in the Middle East and Northern Africa continue to jeopardize our ability to operate freely on land and from those locations in the region where U.S. forces are based.

I think there is going to be a point in time that I can see in the next decade or so where we have to leave some of these places where we have been operating simply because we cannot support their type of government.

The overall national budget problem can't be fixed by cuts to defense and that may be very unwise.

The number of 288 ships that we are the same place we were in 1916 is not something that gives us a lot of sense of peace here.

We think you guys are being too good of soldiers in terms of maybe being too tough on the budget.

What makes you think California can afford anything, even doing less with less?

How can we maintain all of these gains that we have made through so much effort if we only have 150 people, and we don't have any military there whatsoever?

But what you are supposed to do is tell us how we get to zero threat, and Congress then decides what to fund.