Allen West

You are talking about a small percentage of Americans that were willing to give their entire lives to make sure we stay free and protected this democracy.

So, we need to figure out what we can do to inflict maximum pain, maximum punishment, to bleed Repsol of whatever resources they may have if there is a potential for a spill that will affect the U.S. coast.

My colleagues and I have introduced legislation that takes further steps in order to deter companies and individuals from entering into oil agreements with the Castro regime.

I think that is one of the failures we have to look at is that I do not think anyone was taking you very seriously. And it is sad that we have gotten to this point.

I just want to say that I sit on two committees, the Armed Services Committee and also the Small Business Committee. And when I think about the fact that 2 weeks ago the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was visiting the nation of…

I have authored the Caribbean Coral Reef Protection Act, legislation that would sanction companies and individuals who aid the Castro brothers in their oil drilling activities.

I get very concerned when you look and see a lot of these weapons systems... that all of a sudden we cancel these programs.

So it is a very dangerous road when we start to go down the comparative analysis of the private sector or business sector to the United States military.

And I just hope that our fiscal irresponsibility on this side does not become borne on the backs of our men and women in uniform or their families.

future generations will regard their service to this Nation based upon how well we treat our veterans.

Do you really believe that there is a huge disconnect between a national security strategy, national military strategy?

But I think the real question here is not really about the benefit of unions. But the question really has to be about, is there an agenda out there that is being promoted that would seek to take away the choice and the option that an…

My feeling of this whole issue is it is just a poster. And if the idea of this is that the NLRB has been so successful and is so biased toward unionization and organized labor, how come for the last three decades, all we have done is lost…

Without every able-bodied American working that is able to work, we cannot recover from our debt.

I would be out of business if I were to lose that highly skilled workforce.

I don't want someone standing over my shoulder and judging me for the choices I have made.

I commend you for this and keep pressing on because I don't want to see this great tradition to be taken away from my Army.

Do we really have the maritime forces to be able to have the power projection and potentially the forcible-entry capability to contend with the rising threats that could come out of those nations?

It really is an honor to be here with you today because you two are the epitome of the American warrior.

You`re here to stand up, to get your musket, to fix your bayonet and to charge into the ranks, you are my brother and sister in this fight.