Political Quotes

“I seek to close in this period of time, and I appreciate the chairman's remarks on this, but he's asking us to accept the argument that out of $6.6 billion Homeland Security is not going to spend $1 million to take out the lookout outpost on top of the mountains that the drug cartels are manning. And they man these things full-time, often two at a time, often with assault weapons on top. They build a little fortress up there with setting up stones like sandbags, and it's a military position. They sit up there with optical equipment, infrared equipment at night. They can see further than we can see, and they can communicate as well as we can communicate, many times better. So it wouldn't be rational to say we're playing a game of cat and mouse, but we're going to let this cat do whatever he wants to do and we're going to play the mouse. So Mr. Feeney and I authored a letter that went to Secretary of Homeland Security Chertoff on August 30 of last year and asked him to take out these lookout posts and take those drug smugglers off the top of those mountains. That's the short version of it.”