We want to congratulate you on your appointment. We look forward to your service in office.

I ask that you do what you can to make sure that DHS does get the intelligence it should be getting.

We also look forward to working with you on that.

I want to assure you that on this side of the aisle we will work with you in addressing the issues.

Other legislators and observers prefer a different approach, as reflected in bills introduced by Representative King of New York.

There is no evidence that she's qualified.

There is no evidence that she's qualified, and I'm not saying you have to be a politician or to have held office to be a United States Senator, but you have to be somewhere in the public arena.

There are too many mosques in this country.

We need more personnel. Again, we've tripled the number of Border Patrol agents in the last five years, but I think we have to add significantly more.

I certainly think an attempted attack upon the United States is inevitable.

I've known Mike Chertoff for quite a while. We've had some agreements on different issues, but he's always been cool, always entirely composed. But when he called me last night, that was the first time in my relationship with him that I have seen him -- the voice just sounded tense over the phone. He seemed very concerned.