"I turned out to be right, and we should dismantle that."
"All laws emanate from this document, don't they?"
"We created DHS. We created TSA. Do you think the Congress and this committee has the right to investigate misconduct and mismanagement at the TSA and DHS?"
"We believe we're entitled to--under the Constitution, under the laws, we created TSA, DHS, and other--other laws that have precedent, we have the right to question that witness, and the law also says ..."
"some of the waste and inefficiency of the Federal Government is identified annually by GAO."
"The management's lacking."
"We have a Metro system in crisis in Washington, D.C., and we need to find out what has gone wrong."
"Would you have the Federal Government manage that property? Hell, no. You'd be nuts. And we do that."
"What we don't have--we have money available, we don't have leadership, we don't have management."
"I am not going to bail you out. I am not going to support bailing out the District of Columbia."
"It's the procedures. They're cumbersome. They're outdated. They're bureaucratic. There's red tape."