"If he had an hour of time right now and he had to choose between putting handcuffs on someone or doing public awareness, right now he would do public awareness."
"We have a bipartisan urgency to deal with this crisis and it is frustrating to me that in this hearing a lot of folks want to try to levy other issues that are not central to dealing with this scourge..."
"I want to thank the CBP agents. When you look at the amount that has been interdicted either at the border by CBP agents or by the HIDTA task forces internally, you want to thank those folks."
"We have to do more and technology is one way of doing more, but the truth of the matter is until we close our border this issue continues."
"We should be able to invest more in ports of entry to get a lot more fentanyl before it crosses the border."
"If we close our southern border, stop fentanyl from coming across, we could end the devastation and the tragedy that is being experienced by so many American families."
"We will expect about 2,500 fentanyl deaths this year."
"We need to use every foreign policy tool we have to stop the flow of fentanyl into our country."
"I doubt Xi Jinping cares about his chemical and pharmaceutical industry supplying the Mexican cartels that are flooding the United States with fentanyl."
"Overdose suggests you were taking something and maybe you took too much, but actually it is accidental."
"I believe, Senator, as I sit here that the cartels are acting with deliberate, calculated treachery."