"One of our great American aphorisms--I think it's attributed to Ben Franklin--is that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
"What's striking to me, though, is that those people who have gone through it or have had an immediate family member go through it, look at something like a proposed $6 billion cut in NIH medical resea..."
"I doubt many Americans realize that when they go down to the DMV to get their driver's licenses, their photos could be made part of a database that can be searched by the FBI."
"Now, understand, I guess my concern is that if we are going to, again, use tools, it seems to me that we would do everything in our power to make sure that those tools are used in a fair way."
"I represent the Eighth Congressional District in Maryland, which includes NIH, which is now slated for a $6 billion cut."
"What we don't know at this point is what specific regulatory changes might be forthcoming from the administration in this field and how they would affect the environment and affect workers."
"We could save $125 billion just by reducing bureaucratic bloat and contractor fraud and waste and abuse and overruns."
"When you have that kind of systemic repeat dysfunction over the decades, you've got to believe it's not totally pathological; it's working for somebody."
"Some people would cast the current global political condition as a war between Christianity and Islam."
"We were the first nation conceived in revolution against monarchy and theocracy to declare religious liberty."
"I think it is absolutely essential if we are going to proceed with dissolving the Election Assistance Commission."