Tom Carper

We need to make sure that we are getting our money's worth out of those forces on the ground.

These technologies help them quickly pinpoint where people are trying to cross the border illegally.

Unless we get our arms around health care costs rising, we are never going to really do a good enough job on deficit reduction.

I believe that our efforts, and especially those of the dedicated men and women who work along the border, are paying off for the American taxpayers, and they need to.

I think we struggle with this as a metric--that is the way we are going to measure progress and making the border more secure.

The crime rates in their communities were at the lowest level in decades and were continuing to decline.

I want the bill to be better so we can pass it.

If we are going to have four drones there, we need to be able to resource them.

I mentioned, Senator McCain, before you got here how valuable our visit to your border, your State's border with Mexico, was for me.

Last month, I was able to visit portions of the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona with one of our colleagues, Senator John McCain.

We have been talking a lot about the physical border and the security measures, and I can tell you, it has drastically changed.

My real question is, is it a fool's errand to think that we can develop the technology...

Find out what works and do more of that. Find out what does not work and do less of that.

I will be very disappointed if by the second anniversary of the Fukushima accident... our nuclear power plants are not where they are supposed to be.

General Alexander, head of the NSA, has said it's around $400 billion a year.

It's--what you've laid out, here, this framework, suggests to me that each time--it's the third major proposal, here--each time, it's been changed; and each time, it's been changed to reflect, maybe the legitimate concerns, or maybe not so…

The reason the bill didn't go through the Senate is because there's a disagreement on the liability protections for business and industry.

What we have to do is what's in the best interests of the nation.

America's economy and our national security are under attack.

As you know, we changed it so that--we came back and said, 'Well, why don't we say that, for critical infrastructure, the best practices would be, not mandated, but we'd ask the industries--the owners, the operators of the critical…

The stakes are high--and summon the political will to do what's best for America.

Sophisticated cyber thieves are stealing our ideas, our intellectual property.

I think, generally, it's been very positive.

I'd like to go back a bit in time with each of you, and go back to when the Senate--particularly Senators Lieberman, Collins, Rockefeller, myself, Feinstein--offered the earlier version of our legislation, our comprehensive legislation.

I'm highly disappointed that OMB didn't release the FISMA report.