Tom Carper

Just do it. Not the easy thing, not the expedient thing, what is the right thing to do.

The Military Whistleblower Protection Act is the lowest common denominator in the U.S. Code for accountability through whistleblower protection.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union.

We are dealing right now with domestic enemies, enemies that have no intention of respecting the Whistleblower Act.

I will never accept that, because what you have done is raise an issue that is extremely important to this Nation.

We will make sure that that day comes.

The role of government is to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.

I find them to be more often than not constructive and trying to be helpful to enable the Postal Service to survive and thrive.

The opportunities are enormous. The need to get information from one place to another is only going to grow.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

TSA faces serious challenges that demand strong, permanent, Senate-confirmed leadership.

I think the Congress is an enabler.

One of the things is that, as hard as they work, they never get thanked.

I think he is an excellent choice, and we will have a hearing, and we are doing our vetting for him right now.

I think risk-based security is a good procedure.

What you cannot measure you cannot manage.

The most important element of any organization I have ever been a part of or seen is leadership.

If you have great leadership, you have a fighting chance to be successful. If you do not, you are probably doomed.

When I was Governor, I was nominated by President Clinton to be on the Amtrak Board of Directors, and I had to go through a vetting process.

One death is too many, especially if it is a death caused by a mistake or inappropriate attention or care.

There is no way I am going to finish doing this. This is just way too much.

I am troubled by the fact that there has not been a Senate-confirmed IG at Interior for over 5 years

I thought, my God, just to be on the Amtrak Board? They should pay me to do that.

I am still doing the Lord's work.

$125 billion, according to GAO last year, was the amount of our improper payments, mistaken payments, accounting errors, in some cases fraud.