the cost and expense, particularly with them being off the coast of Cuba and our coast, require a great deal of expenditure just to maintain the security and the classification.

We are pleased at the direction that he is going in.

I really salute Secretary Clinton, when she went to Mexico, and took ownership for our insatiable demand for drugs.

We want to support you in that.

We also have now a task force against mortgage fraud, where another type of predator is stalking our communities.

We need to enforce the law. We need to respect international law. But we have to make sure that streets and neighborhoods are not going to be the repository of Guantanamo prisoners.

I am very proud of the kind of task forces that are being used in Maryland right now.

the highly sensitive nature of who these prisoners are requires that everything occur in highly classified situations because of the nature of the information involved.

Can I have your assurances that nothing would be done in States and local communities without consultation with us and also consultation with Governors?

The American people rely on the Department of Justice, and we are passionate about restoring it to what its original mission is.

What you are saying is that right now you are doing an inventory of who is there at Guantanomo Bay and what is the right way to dispose of them, as well as also doing a real evaluation about what are the best interrogation policies that…

They need to know that the Department of Justice is free from politics and ideology.

I support the President's agenda for closing Guantanamo Bay, and at the same time, as a United States Senator, I want to make sure that we protect our neighborhoods and communities as we look at what is the honorable and right way to deal…

I believe there is another 'pandemic' in the United States, and that is the insatiable demand for drugs.

We were able to catch that sniper. That kind of cooperation continues to exist.

I think President Obama has made an excellent choice in selecting you.

On June 4, we are going to hold our hearing on the FBI budget request, and the committee will do something different this year.

We believe these are very important priorities.

I believe Southwest border violence is a very significant threat and if we don't intervene aggressively now, it will have horrific consequences to our security.

What would this $30 million do, and is this laying the groundwork for the dumping of terrorists into State and Federal prisons?

So we have got a lot to do together, and we want to work with you to recapitalize and rebuild the Department of Justice so we can render justice in our country and have our national honor restored abroad.

Each administration has been rather tepid, timid and uneven in dealing with demand.

Afghanistan seems threatened not only by the Taliban, but by a government that's riddled with cronyism and corruption.

the women's issues are not just a side issue or a marginal one. They are core to the strategy that we have developed.

The fact that we have a government in Afghanistan that turns the other cheek when girls have acid thrown in their face when they go to school.