"I wonder what that means. And I must tell you it pains me tremendously."
"What I would suggest is that you all adopt the Commander-in-Chief's very words, the urgency of now."
"There was phenomenal reluctance. Phenomenal. And that is why I am saying this. I would not say this if it did not pain me."
"I just think that we need to, coming out of this Committee, at least make our recommendations to them."
"You know, I have often talked about how, in our Country, we believe that we are prepared for emergencies."
"Is it the case that protecting U.S. commercial shipping is no longer among the primary missions of the United States Navy?"
"If a foreign threat was attacking Americans, say, in Washington, DC, would you recommend that the best response would be for those under attack to hire private security guards?"
"We have pretty much been guaranteed that it will pass out of the judiciary committee."
"And the fact is that in Baltimore, a person could be standing at a bus stop. There could be 20 people, somebody could come up, kill that -- kill one of the people. Everybody knows who did it. And nobo..."
"What my message is, is that we're going to do everything in our power to help them and protect them."
"It's extremely pervasive in Maryland and in Baltimore. It's estimated that, in violent offenses, sometimes as much as 90 to 100 percent of the cases involve some type of witness intimidation."