We all know that we're focusing exclusively on about 15 percent of the total budget.

Politicians like to divide up the pie. They don't want New Jersey and New York to get all of it.

High-speed rail makes sense in some very dense corridor areas. It doesn't make sense in the middle of America.

The reality is that, probably, we're not going to get to the numbers the administration has proposed.

It seems to me there's a priority there. We're not going to be able to do No. 2 unless we can do No. 1.

I am sympathetic to what Senator Lautenberg was saying relative to representing an area that is a significantly high-threat area.

I assume some of our allies have come to the same conclusion, that it's in their interest, both from an energy standpoint, immigration standpoint, social-economic standpoint, political standpoint to be engaged.

I mean, it's easy to look at the negative side of this--what's happening and say woe is us, and what's going to happen? There's also potentially a great upside to all this.

The reality in this Congress is that we are going to appropriate--I believe, going to end up appropriating less than what that budget asks for.

Doing as much or more with less is something, again, that all of America has had to do in these last 2 years.

I could not agree more. But there just are fiscal realities that we have to deal with.

we are building this agency, and that takes investments and resources.