"Emergency preparedness, response, and recovery is too important of a mission for this agency to consistently struggle with disaster contracting."
"Well, I hope that FEMA has the urgency that I feel that this needs to be rectified."
"I think this needs to be expedited."
"You haven't on either side, right, and you have no evidence that they haven't been, correct?"
"It is absolutely unacceptable. I am sorry. I have gone over, but I felt that had to be borne out."
"We need to have an honest conversation today about how FEMA should proceed with preventing future contracting missteps."
"Proper disaster contracting is crucial to successful response efforts."
"I am particularly concerned about FEMA's contracting for disasters."
"I pledge my allegiance to a flag every single day that says that we all are created equal and are allowed to be citizens and justice is meted out equally."
"This is an effort by the President to control this Department to the degree he wants to control it."
"We see that we have gotten into this habit of locking children in cages, in fences, and feeling that that will deter people from coming here."