"I do not want anyone stepping on my air hose."
"I do just want to correct the record from my friend from Montana because the number he cited, which I heard the skepticism in your voice, Madam Secretary, of $1.256 billion going to purchase electric ..."
"But the current budget submission has it still within women's health care."
"We shouldn't be structuring the way we allocate funds in the same way just because that is the way we have always done it."
"public service is the rent you pay for space on this earth."
"We protected funding for women's health care, all while defeating attempts to restrict women's access to abortion."
"Note to self, do not make Judge Carter mad."
"I just hope this raises a caution flag on moving forward on barracks and unaccompanied housing because I don't trust them."
"The privatization process is a failure in terms of maintaining the quality of life of housing."
"And quite frankly, addressing global warming and climate change, and the impact it has on the deterioration of our infrastructure certainly is a quality-of-life issue."
"the responsiveness with military family housing has been atrocious, so much so that we had to put in $130 million and then $140 million in the last 2 years for oversight at the military leadership"