"It's the procedures. They're cumbersome. They're outdated. They're bureaucratic. There's red tape."
"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."
"Virginia needs to step up to the plate, Maryland needs to step up to the plate, and the District with that huge surplus now needs to step up to the plate."
"We have a Metro system in crisis in Washington, D.C., and we need to find out what has gone wrong."
"The borders are a sieve. We have people working at our airports who are aliens who we don't even know anything about."
"They say they arrest them. They detain them. They call the Border Patrol. And they advise them that they can't help."
"We have allowed tens of thousands--I saw an estimate of about 50,000 criminal illegals in the United States."
"I guess you would probably conclude that our borders are porous, a sieve, and tens of thousands of illegals are coming across the border."
"This amnesty through policy of the administration, this is the President's policy of amnesty?"
"I think there couldn't be a better time, with incidents that we have seen most recently and around the world relating to terrorism and our border vulnerability."