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

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?

I like to say it is a busy neighborhood.

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

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.

We do not get very good warning.

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

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

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

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.

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

I think we have about five million people that are suffering from Alzheimer's disease, dementia today.

People ask me, not all the time, but quite a bit, what keeps me up at night, and I am the senior Democrat on this Committee and we focus a lot on cyber attacks and all kinds of attacks on our country, lone wolves. Those are the kind of…

I think there is a lot of reason to say, yes, we would, and it is just not my conjecture, but folks a whole lot smarter than me.

We spend a huge amount, as you know, in the last 6 months of our lives.

I would ask that my full statement be made a part of the record.

some level of debt is reasonable and running a deficit is sometimes necessary.

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.

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

Is that something we are actually doing now, where we have, like, one designated person, so you do not, like, call a call center and get switched from person to person to person?

It does not mean we will always be.

I think we adopted it maybe a year or so ago and I do not know if we have had enough time to actually get it up and running.

When we have a farm that goes down in Delmarva because of the avian influenza, a lot of times, countries around the world will just say they are not going to take any of our chickens.