"Isn't focusing on diversity issues creating reverse discrimination and separating us further rather than uniting us?"
"I would absolutely personally, speaking for myself, want to shut off the entire system of asylum right now until we have dealt with the program as a whole and in an appropriate manner."
"There is nothing about it to be proud of. It is like Central Park: anybody can walk in there, it is crime-ridden, and everybody around it has to pay the price for that."
"If your bathtub is overflowing, what is the first thing that you do if your bathtub is overflowing? You shut off the water."
"Unless VA can, through your procedures for evaluating cost, give us as Members of Congress who would appropriate money to the VA for general funds or specific programs, sometimes we get a little nervo..."
"It is not too little, too late, but it was too late for some."
"You want to be in a fight, you got to be present for it."
"Darren Soto, who has been doing this almost as long as I have, is inside of the VA on a weekly basis seeing what goes right, seeing what goes wrong."
"We need to be steady; we need to be strong, and we need to be strategic in the way we impose our sanctions."
"I like to think that we swing the biggest stick. And so, we can get them in line--with the right leadership."
"I want to be there to--I do not need a ride; I need ammunition."