Bennie Thompson actually said...

"I often urge my colleagues not to use our positions of influence to promote fear in the public."

"I hope that our discussion today can yield a step in this direction, and I also support the Chairman's comment that this disease does not see party or anything."

"These issues create problems for our security and create problems for the men and women that we have asked to protect the homeland."

"The drug cartels basically own that territory."