John Garamendi actually said...

"I think we have an opportunity here to achieve what you said in your last couple of sentences..."

"OMB has done its thing, and that is fine. They can suggest, but we are the ones that are actually going to write the appropriation as well as the budgets."

"Every day the Coast Guard's missions are critical to our Nation's defense."

"if we are going to exploit a strategic American resource, such as natural gas and oil, it ought to be on American-built ships with American sailors"