"I think that I would like to see us worry more about law enforcement in America than law enforcement in Iraq."
"I'm happy to be an original co-sponsor of that Act."
"We then had one very important thing happen: we had 9/11, which put huge additional burdens on State and local law enforcement."
"So we have to act now. We have got to do something to reverse the nearly 50 percent reduction in overall funding for State and local law enforcement."
"an effective way to protect our citizens and create jobs, that begin rebuilding our economy and our communities, with confidence, would be to restore Federal support for State and local law enforcemen..."
"I believe we should restore the COPS program and the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Program to the levels that worked so effectively in the '90s."
"I think that we've done that at great expense to, what I would call, 'hometown security'."
"The former Chairman of this Committee, Joe Biden, who is soon to leave the Senate for another job, worked so hard on."
"As long as there are two candidates fighting for the nomination when it's obvious which one is going to win, all that it does is to help the other party's nominee."
"And we are certainly not getting our money's worth there, in fact, just the opposite. And I don't see how we actually end up fighting terrorists, if our money is going simply to prop up somebody who ..."