"I view these annual appropriations hearings as similar to investor briefs, annual investor briefs, right?"
"The mission statement of the Department of Justice is: 'to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil rights.'"
"I think your giving yourself an A under these circumstances demonstrates a lack of self-awareness, frankly. I think you have earned an F."
"It is not the lack of money. I respect the $37 billion investment request here. If I was in charge, I would give you more. But it is the policies that are broken."
"I want to remind everyone that the United States has actually never accomplished a soft landing on Mars without the talented minds at JPL."
"We have significantly increased the number of cases that we can do where we charge death resulting."
"It's absurd. The DEA doesn't file charges."
"But, not for the purposes of representation, either at the State level assemblies or in the House of Representatives, which is currently, it does wag the dog in terms of representation."
"I personally have no doubt that we would win a war against China. I think it would be protracted, very bloody, extended, probably not popular after time."
"I would encourage you to look at my RAISE Act, which takes the starting salary of an E1 from $22,000 and brings it up to $31,000."
"The other request I have is that you continue to remind the young marines and sailors that the military spouse licensing relief law is now law of the land."
"In California last week, and we brought this up in an earlier hearing with SECNAV as well, and we have had discussions with SecDef about it as well."