Kit Bond

National security should at least be treated with the same degree of power for the FBI agents.

I happen to be a strong supporter of the PATRIOT Act.

I'm not sure they understand it, because the comments I paraphrased were from documents in the King Fahd Mosque.

I hope you come to the right decision.

What the Freedom House found is totally unacceptable.

I believe that Indonesia and Southeast Asia is really the second front in the war on terrorism.

I believe they saved literally tens of thousands of people by their quick actions.

I do not think that even had that wall not been there, there would have been enough information to build the case to find the 19 hijackers.

It seems to me that a lot of leaks come out of this place when too much information comes to Congress.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

I certainly agree with Senator Cochran on the need to ensure that our troops have everything they need to fulfill the mission.

We need to focus our energies on the war on terror, which we cannot afford to lose.

The abuses at Abu Ghraib represented a total breakdown in supervision, training, discipline and leadership.

The year 2003 saw the lowest annual level of terrorist attacks since 1969 which indicates that much progress has been made.

Our enemy is the terrorist who targets innocent civilians and the terror organizations and regimes who support terror.

I think you can count on us being very strong supporters of the--what was it--you have squeezed it down to, what, $43 million?

It will challenge our minds to grasp the significance and the breadth of this problem.

It seems to me that whenever I am home, the newspaper or the radio will report a tragic circumstance where an elderly person has disappeared.

You hate to think of using a GPS locator, normally a great invasion, but that might be the life saver for an Alzheimer's patient.

I have been a long-time advocate of respite care for family members who are caregivers for adults with any kind of problem requiring assistance.

That kind of care is so critically important, and we will continue to fight and to work on it.

Thank you very much, Mr. McConnell. I regret to tell you that you come before us at a time of very stretched budgets.

Well, that is good. I appreciate that. Thank you for that. We would love to be able to fund this and the other things, but we do have a tight budget.

Good morning. The hearing of the Subcommittee on Aging of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will come to order.

Today we are here to discuss a very important and very difficult problem, that of Alzheimer's disease.