Lee Hamilton

I think it is one of the most significant failures of the American policy on an energy issue ever.

I think the American people would be in an uproar of rage if they knew all the facts surrounding what has happened since 1983...

Look, I think you have got to give those people in Hanford some hope.

I think the 1982 act makes it clear with this polluter-pays concept behind it, that that is to be the funding mechanism to ensure that all costs of disposing of commercial fuel will be paid.

Secretary of Energy Chu made it quite clear that nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain is not an option.

You need some counterpressure, some pushback to the security agencies which press for more and more power.

I think all the members of the Commission felt that you needed a robust civil liberties board to push back.

I think we have to accelerate this effort as best we can and get our act together because this is a huge vulnerability in our air traffic system today.

I believe the greatest current terrorist threat to the United States is from Islamist extremists.

You know your community better than the DHS Secretary or the President or anybody else.

Look, this is another no-brainer. The people of responsibility at the scene of a disaster must have the ability to communicate with one another, not just verbally, but exchanging all kinds of data and information that can be helpful to the…

My personal preference would be to see a law enacted making it unambiguously clear that this man is in charge because somebody has to knock heads, to be blunt about it, within the intelligence community to get them to coordinate and…

Political leadership from both parties at all levels of government should renew their focus on completing implementation of the 9/11 Commission recommendations.

Congress and the President must enact a law, a comprehensive approach for how to handle these detainees that is grounded in the principles of fairness, due process, and protecting the American people.

The homeland security program ought not to be a revenue-sharing program.

It is frustrating to me beyond measure that 10 years after 9/11 this obvious priority has not been fully met.

I think American policy increasingly will focus on the question of: What pace do we withdraw from Afghanistan?

More Pakistani soldiers have died fighting the Taliban than U.S. and NATO soldiers combined.

We are not going to solve the problems in this relationship. We just have to manage them.

You cannot deal with immigration on a piecemeal basis. You cannot do it.

I can't imagine any of these terrorists striking without paying some homage and allegiance to him. This man was extraordinarily charismatic.

I think what the Chairman said in his opening statement, and I think several of the witnesses mentioned, for 10 years now after 9/11, the American people have moved on to all kinds of other interests and focuses, and so there is a kind of…

I am deeply grateful to you for your sustained support of the 9/11 Commission's recommendations and leadership in reforming our National security institutions.

I am deeply grateful for the sustained support coming from this committee in reforming our National security institutions.