"And the point being, two similar facilities--one in downtown Manhattan; one outside Olney, Illinois--two very different risk portfolios."
"I guess the big point is, if you can't do the small things, how can the country, the localities, the taxpayers, the public interest groups, expect us to do the big things?"
"It is always a memorable time and usually very short because on September 11th, that it was a short event in which we gathered."
"Well, I think it was last year when I had an inspector just come visit and kind of do an open-office-hour type of thing."
"I understand that GAO has placed DHS on its high-risk list due to management challenges facing the Department."
"So DHS is in the high-risk; CFATS is probably their number-one problem of concern."
"If you can't get the small things right, how do people trust you to do the big things in this issue?"
"Could we get a better return on investment and a more timely process getting it right before it deployed?"
"There is really no reason we should have a recession currently if we release our energy companies to explore, identify, and recover our energy resources."
"There is no reason for us to continue to have a negative balance of trade and continue to be a borrowing country when we could have a positive balance of trade and we could turn into a lending company..."
"Even in my own district in southern Illinois, where is my oil and gas exploration and recovery going on?"
"The fracking boom is coming to southern Illinois, and there are a lot of exciting opportunities there, especially for rural, small-town America."