"there has been no evidence to show that the Federal Government and particularly the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, or the Department of Justice has been wholly weaponized against the right."
"the outcome of hearings of this Committee has supported my claim that from the very beginning of the creation of this Select Subcommittee that his has been the gaslighting to the ninth degree, a treme..."
"this is not pre-1990s apartheid South Africa, the country of your birth. This is America and there are more of us Americans that love our diversity, our rule of law, than there are of you who would li..."
"I would just ask, Mr. Chair, if we could stick to some decorum and not disparage witnesses or characterize their testimony."
"So, while we are bemoaning the alleged mistreatment of certain individuals, including some here today, which may or may not be true, we are escalating it with actual threats that could lead to violenc..."
"I find it almost humorous to hear characterizations of the FBI as this hotbed of liberal, if not leftist ideology."
"It seems to me the FBI has always been a fairly conservative culture and certainly a right-of-center political bent."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And let me just say, I think this is one of the best panels we have ever had on this subject."
"I bemoan the fact that we do not seem to have made much progress."
"If you are going to have data sharing and data analytics that help us flag and ultimately prevent fraud, you need an IT platform that works."
"Did we provide money? Did we make investments to give states resources to upgrade their IT systems to manage unemployment?"
"What can go wrong with 50 different systems? And some did well and some did not."