Bennie Thompson actually said...

"Of course, the surest way to fail is not to try at all."

"In layman's terms, what percent cargo that is coming to the United States right now is not scanned?"

"At this point in this hearing today, is there any shipments using your protocol that is coming to the United States that we don't know what is in it?"

"So your testimony to this committee is that there is no container shipment coming to the United States that we don't know what is in it?"