"Thank you, Commissioner."
"do you feel that our mechanism, DHS, FBI, and others, are moving toward understanding the potential for commando-type activities on the soil of the United States?"
"We are grateful to all the witnesses for recognizing their role in that."
"If we have not gotten a wake-up call over the last series of years, noting the numbers of terrorist acts that have occurred..."
"Enough time, if we were unlucky to have a number of terrorist acts, if that was what terrorists intended to do in the United States, and we were not prepared."
"I intend to and hope my Ranking Member will join me on encouraging, by way of letter, DHS to move forward on the characterization of the standards."
"I am much more comforted by the fact that you would be on the Commercial Facilities Coordinating Council than I might be on real estate."
"Can we say that there is ever too much money invested in security?"
"What do you want from the Government in terms of assistance?"
"I want to make sure you are not suggesting that the people of Pakistan are comfortable with terrorist acts and are not making efforts."
"I do want to emphasize, since I was physically on-site, using my somewhat non-, both nonscientific and non-law-enforcement eye, the importance of internal preparedness plans for hotels."
"I think you have given us our marching orders."