"I would suspect he knows more about this than anybody else having been in charge over there."
"Are you telling me that you are checking every one of those vehicles to be sure it is not transporting guns or cash south into Mexico?"
"I am talking about 16 lanes of traffic going south, 2 miles long backed up, and you are checking every vehicle?"
"I have been saying that for 10 years now, and I get the same answers which I can't fathom and don't understand."
"How many containers come to the U.S. from Mexico a year or a month or whatever?"
"It would be tremendous; would it not?"
"It would revolutionize the way that we secure containers coming to us from all over the world."
"I don't sense an urgency on the part of the Department in the slightest to get this done."
"From the days of the Revenue Cutter Service to the Higgins boats at Normandy, riverboats in Vietnam, patrol boats in the Persian Gulf, the Coast Guard has consistently proven to be a truly unique inst..."
"I am told that 90 percent or so of the heroin entering this country and cocaine and others, that 90 percent of that coming into the country comes across the Mexican border."
"If we had a way to know that it had been opened and tampered with by a truck driver who had been bought off by the cartel, would that not be a major advance?"