Tom Carper

It is not enough just for us to build bigger walls, stronger walls, more border patrols. We have to figure out the underlying causes.

I do not want, when Senator Murphy is eligible for Medicare, for us to still be patching and patching and patching some more.

Great. Thanks for your service so far. Good luck, Godspeed. Thank you.

The key is leadership, leadership.

We are fortunate in our State that we have--Dow is one of our corporate citizens.

A great opportunity for the authorizers and the appropriators to work together in yet other venues.

I had come here today hoping that we would hear from the first panel and the second panel and from my colleagues just a good exchange of ideas and information that would enable us to actually make some progress on cobbling together an…

I think what I would like to ask is--one of the things I like to do at these hearings is we have a diverse panel here, and we need help in developing consensus.

We have looked at the enemy, and it is us.

We acknowledge that it is not all on you. Part of this is on us.

I am going to slip off and do my constitutional duty to vote.

Just use some common sense.

This program that was needed is a program that did not start well, had all kinds of problems, as you know.

We are not going to penalize you. Fix them.

Make us a guided missile in some of the stuff that you heard here.

I like to say there are three things we need to do to continue making progress on deficit reduction.

We are an oversight Committee, as you know, and we are an authorizing Committee for Homeland Security Department.

Do not want to waste money on an audit. I understand that.

And it is all hands on deck. We appreciate some good things that are going on with the Marine Corps and the encouragement that you have given to us. We just want to keep pushing.

I am a recovering Governor. My last job when trying to solve issues in our little State of Delaware...

We cannot, however, effectively identify areas to reduce spending if we do not know how much and where we are spending that money in the first place.

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

We especially waste it in the Department of Defense.

We try to do oversight. We try to do good oversight, not 'gotcha' oversight, but constructive oversight.

We need to go small. That is the big difference between government and the private sector.