04/22/2013
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"The challenge for leaders in this town is we are consumed by people whose vision only goes from year-to-year."
"I have gone on record saying that I think the Coast Guard needs closer to $2 billion per year to recapitalize, do proper recapitalization."
"I was there in April with others to commission the first fast response cutter, the Bernard C. Webber."
"We need some more funding in our society, in our budget, and that is where the problem is."