"I actually sit on the Smithsonian board."
"I suspect frankly if it ever got to the Floor, I do not have any doubt it would pass with overwhelming bipartisan support."
"I want to be specific but I want you to be general in your answer."
"It is a wonderful two-way street in the sense that I think the Tribes do bring a lot, as you say, with their historic associations quite often and an immensity of knowledge that really nobody else has..."
"Do you think the Tribes are sophisticated enough--and again, I recognize I think probably more than most the variety of levels of sophistication that Tribes have an administrative capability but do yo..."
"I must tell you, I am very dubious after talking to folks that the adoption program is ever going to work."
"I think it is something that we as a Committee and as a Congress need to have a really candid discussion about."
"I do not have any predetermined outcome here."
"I just look at the numbers and I look at what we are trying to grapple with here."
"This is something that is extraordinarily expensive, and if you look at the expense curve, it is just simply going up."
"we don't deal with our entitlement crisis; we don't deal with the bigger fiscal issues in front of us."
"we are also going to eliminate seven AWACS, and they are the entire Reserve capability that we have in that area."