"I am glad you are there. And I don't know how many people could stand the pressure of what you are dealing with."
"Particularly in this economic climate, bureaucratic delays that may threaten a mariner's ability to work are completely unacceptable."
"I want to, first of all, thank you for what you have been able to accomplish in a few months."
"We can take the resources that we have and, with proper planning, use them more effectively and efficiently."
"That is very significant because basically what you are saying is in those urgent situations, first of all, you try to prevent them;"
"I guess that is a good step in the right direction of that effectiveness and efficiency that I talked about just a moment ago,"
"I don't want this moment to go by without acknowledging what you all have accomplished. It has been just short of extraordinary."
"If we are moving in the right direction, we need to say that so the American People will be clear on that."
"But we also need to keep in mind, as Ms. Klobuchar has so eloquently stated, where we have come from."
"our Country is embarrassingly far behind in the development of a modern high speed rail system."
"We can have all the opportunity, but if people cannot get the bonding to do the programs, they might as well not have the opportunities."
"The SAR mission is one that the Coast Guard performs on a daily basis, and it is a mission central to what our Coast Guard is: a service of guardians willing to risk their own lives to save those in p..."