"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."
"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 sincerely hope that we can learn from the tragic event and apply its lessons to what we are doing to secure the same types of assets in the United States that were targeted in India."
"Thank you, Commissioner."
"They were not suicide bombers."
"Ms. Jackson Lee."
"We should be talking about terrorism and preparedness, because both of those, coming together, meaning prepared to fight terrorism and being prepared will help to save lives."
"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."
"Can we say that there is ever too much money invested in security?"
"We cannot focus too narrowly on any one preventive method."
"If we have not gotten a wake-up call over the last series of years, noting the numbers of terrorist acts that have occurred..."