"Having a decent, safe, quality-of-life place for our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and guardians to live is of the utmost importance."
"The lawful First Amendment protection activity should never be subject to prosecution."
"We have myriad examples of extraordinary, serious violent threats targeting school board officials that should be of concern to everyone."
"The Arctic should be on all of our minds. I know the Coast Guard has been trying to provide the necessary activities in the Coast Guard for a long time, and, unfortunately, has not been able to develo..."
"You are authorized and you have money to build an icebreaker. What is the status of that project?"
"Don't dance with us. Give us the specific information we need to make it happen."
"I am very disappointed. I am very, very disappointed."
"You have got to come to us with a solid plan."
"I am pretty damn tired of the dancing around."
"The Coast Guard has its Arctic strategy. The Air Force, the Army, and the Navy have an Arctic strategy, which, perhaps you agree with me or not, are sophomoric, maybe freshman."
"I thank the many Members of Congress who worked to authorize the medal--including particularly Congressman John Garamendi--for your leadership."
"We must write a new law. This simply has not worked. We are well into two decades of failure."