Scott Peters actually said...

"we don't want to be spending prevention money on fighting fires, and we do that, as I understand it, because of a fealty to this year-by-year scoring, and it is the silliest thing to say we are going ..."

"I think we don't want to have the perverse effect of not having better technology on the shelves because we couldn't achieve perfection."

"It is wrong that we would exclude veterans, like Sergeant Aranda, who suffered life-changing injuries fighting for this country from receiving full education benefits."

"They do not just deserve these benefits. Just like their Purple Heart medals, they have earned them."