Thomas A. Garrett: “We can do this. But sometimes, I think, when we try to dictate it from on high at a Federal level, we just miss the…”

I am prepared to close if the gentlewoman from Oregon would like to conclude her remarks.

I believe to my very core that the best of the collective is achieved by empowering the individual.

I believe, paraphrasing, there are threats greater than an Islamist insurgency that's nationalist in its nature.

I have implored my peers and superiors on this committee to remember the words of Arthur Vandenberg, that politics stop at the water's edge.