"I think America is safer now than it has ever been."
"I hope everyone appreciates it."
"I think it is appropriate, in the climate that we are living in, to have that."
"We have got to get our act together. We have got to synergize, integrate the oversight of Homeland Security with all the other agencies that are doing so."
"I might mention to my Chairman that I have introduced H.R. 1900, the Surface Transportation and Mass Transit Security Act."
"I respectfully suggest that we control our borders OUTBOUND through steady-state port of exit inspections, similar to port of entry inspections."
"Those ports of exit are our last line of defense."
"I realize that these suggestions place our right to bear arms front and center. I do not wish to trample on that. However, I believe that our right to bear arms is not a right to arm a WAR in a foreig..."
"Let's deter and stop the unlawful exportation of guns and ammunition."
"Can we close the gun show loopholes that seem to allow drugs to pass back and forth? That would be helpful to you as well."
"I have to make a statement of my absolute opposition to the line of legislation that has been passed in Arizona."