"Wow. You`re saying that I`m opening up people to violence by asking whether or not women are the folks who can have pregnancies?"
"Oh, so your view is that the core of this -- this right then is about what?"
"We have a Justice Department that refuses to do so, a Justice Department that is now working with the left to intimidate a separate and equal branch of government."
"You have referred to people with a capacity for pregnancy. Would that be women?"
"Count me in for that. But count me out if it is going to be about this internal social justice politics."
"That is great. That is encouraging."
"if this is an effort to turn the agency into a social justice outfit, I am against it, and I am very skeptical of it."
"Good. Let me ask you about something that FEMA announced earlier this year, February, to be exact, February 22nd, the new Equity Action Plan."
"I hope that emergency management and disaster responsiveness would always be your No. 1 top priority, serving and responding to people in need."
"the Department of Homeland Security began working on standing up this board as early as last year."
"the testimony that Secretary Mayorkas gave to this Committee--under oath, I might add--was, in many respects, deeply misleading."