The bottom line, as I said at the beginning, I think this budget continues the Department moving forward.

if there is anything we can do legislatively to support that effort, we would be happy to do so.

Thank you, Senator Carper, both for your astute questioning and your kind words about my birthday.

I also support the President's request for $53 million for the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office to acquire handheld or portable radiation detection equipment for Department of Homeland Security agencies next year.

Can I assume that you had the same reaction Senator Collins and I did, which was the fact that there were 200,000 people working under contracts for the Department of Homeland Security in addition to the almost 200,000 full-time Federal…

I think that any fair assessment of its record in those 7 years would be positive, including a great number of notable successes, such as the recent important role the Department played in stopping the terrorist plot of Najibullah Zazi.

We must ensure that the Department's budget priorities are aligned to counter the threat that we face from a determined enemy.

And there have even been intimations that there has been a decision not to go forward with the trials in New York City.

To me this is a shocking and unacceptable number because Federal full-time employees generally actually cost less than contract employees.

the numbers here are astounding, and obviously, if you have a short-term need for an employee, then it makes sense to do it by contract.

we are not at war with Islam. We are at war with a particular extremist, violent terrorist expression, which is, in my opinion, a corruption, a perversion of Islam.

the budget cuts the spending on cybersecurity by 5 percent

I presume that if the decision was made to take the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trials out of New York City and, for instance, bring him before a military commission and do it at the facility at Guantanamo, to put it in the most conservative…

Obviously, my point is that if the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is moved from New York City, insofar as our Committee and the Appropriations Committee are concerned, that hopefully would mean that there would be $200 million that could…

I remember when President Obama announced his decision to surge our forces, which I appreciated greatly.

It's early, but we've begun a turnaround, and that's very significant.

It's rare that we hear anything positive said in this country about the ISI, the Pakistani Intelligence Service, but it is true, I gather, that they participated, and were perhaps in the lead, in the capture of Mullah Baradar.

I think Marjah is an opening salvo. It is a first step. It is designed to begin to create that shift in momentum.

I appreciate that, and I appreciate your answer. I think we've learned as we've gone to Pakistan a lot and talked to our people there, that this is a mixed picture with the ISI, and that's saying something positive.

President Obama adopted the policy of reaching out to the Iranian regime. Personally, I thought he did the right thing. What he got in return for his outstretched hand was a clenched fist. I think the only thing constructive that has come…

This is a day of history in Tehran, and I hope we can make it a day of history in the U.S. Congress because if this legislation which Senator McCain and I and a bipartisan group of other Senators introduce is adopted, it will be the first…

I thank my friend from Arizona, Mr. McCain, first for his leadership on this issue, which is consistent with a lifetime of support for America's freedom agenda, for the principles that are enshrined in our Declaration of Independence and…

The Senator from Arizona is very clear that these sanctions directed against the thugs in the Iranian Government who brutally suppress the rights of their own people will be very popular with the people of Iran. In my opinion, the economic…

over the past several months, the Iranian government has carried out an unprecedented campaign of repression and violence against the Iranian people. Its targets have spanned everyone from religious clerics to women's rights advocates, as…

I was with Senator McCain. It was such a baldfaced lie because we see Mr. Motaki get up and say Iran is the most democratic regime in the entire Middle East region and beyond and says, with regard to our complaints and the Europeans'…