Cedric Richmond actually said...

"I want to protect them the best I can."

"How can the Department of Homeland Security best judge an urban area's risk of an attack based on the assessments that it uses now?"

"My concern is that many metro Detroiters are at risk of being poisoned if a terrorist decides to dump a bunch of biological agents in that drinking water system."

"I represent New Orleans, Louisiana, which in the aftermath of Katrina the Government response was very, very poor in terms of getting resources there quickly unified command and all of those things."