I appreciate the words that you said that you were working with the veterans groups in particular.

I do not think we have good intelligence on them.

I do think we got it all wrong with our intelligence. And I think we are going to get it all wrong with Iran.

this was a real failure of intelligence.

We rise today--my colleague, Congressman Peters, and myself--in honor of Father Joe Carroll, our San Diego's Mother Teresa. Father Joe was born in the Bronx, New York, on April 12, 1941, and had seven brothers and sisters. He moved to…

Well, of course, they don't trust us when you can't hear us speak with one voice that we should be vaccinated.

I'd like to see the dictatorship gone, the authoritarian rule and, obviously, have democracy and have people have the opportunity to vote and to choose whomever they want.

If you do the same thing over and over again and you expect a different result, that's insanity.

Thank you very much, Madam Chairwoman. First, I would like to say thank you for your compassion that you have toward the homeless and trying to find a solution.

I think the next big one is not Dodd-Frank; I think it is going to be climate change.

I think it is good for democracy. I think it is good for the people there to understand we are doing this because this is what free countries do, this is what democracy does, as opposed to the Chinese who do it for self-interest.

We need urgent, immediate fixes, anything to slow the flows.