Tom Carper

When you get push-back, or we will say a lack of passion, for pursuing strategic sourcing, what are some of the excuses that you get, and how do you deal with that?

I do not mind paying taxes. I just do not want you to waste my money.

Short but sweet. Thank you for that statement.

Senator Lankford and I are going to co-chair this hearing for our nominee today.

This place runs not entirely, but a lot, on relationships and trust.

Around here, if you trust somebody, you can get a lot done. If you do not have much trust, it is hard to get anything done.

Thank you for all your contributions, for your presence today.

In America you have elections every 4 years. Somebody wins; somebody loses. And you just have a transition, and the next person becomes president.

Is DHS required to implement the EMP Commission's recommendations?

This is not something that they could do lightly without realizing that they would suffer nuclear response.

We do not get very good warning.

If terrorists want to do something serious, they will use a weapon of mass destruction--not mass disruption.

How likely is it that a country, like Russia, like China, like North Korea, would detonate a nuclear weapon in the atmosphere above the United States?

Though we should always strive for perfection, we simply do not have the resources to achieve 100 percent security all of the time.

I like to say it is a busy neighborhood.

Have any of the Commission's recommendations been codified in statute yet?

To address these evolving threats, we must always look to stay at least one step ahead of the bad guys or, in some cases, Mother Nature.

Threats to the homeland have evolved, as we all know, considerably over the last 15 years.

The high-altitude nuclear explosion EMP threat is real. It is very special.

But it will kill a lot of people, not instantly, and, that is up to the terrorists' taste.

There has got to be some way that the Postal Service is looking for a way to make money.

This is a fruit that is laying on the ground. I just want to hear a sense of urgency that we are going to seize this day, we are going to seize this day.

When they asked Willie Sutton, why do you rob banks, he says, that is where the money is.

GAO has finally put on their High-Risk List the issue of climate change.

As it turns out, I am told maybe three-quarters of what we spend in Medicaid these days are for folks, older people in nursing homes, a lot of whom have dementia.