"This happens to be the D.C. related committee."
"There is no question that we have failed as a country to describe what risk we are willing to accept."
"The 9/11 Commission said that one of the causes of September 11, 2001, was a failure of imagination."
"I think it raises big hopes in the hearts and minds of the parents and the children who are involved in that program."
"Now, thank God, we have gone 8 years, and we have not suffered another attack on our territory, so that hopefully means that we have done some good risk assessment or we have sent messages out that ha..."
"I say that with regret, because I wanted to hear both sides."
"I would urge you to go forward and pursue it."
"I would not want my child in a school that was unsafe because how could the child learn in an unsafe environment?"
"It pays to listen to the people who happen to live in the area or field that you are regulating."
"I agree totally with you about that."
"I would feel it would be my obligation to refer the matter to the Department of Justice."