Peter Welch

Let's just not keep pouring good money after bad.

I would like to get back to what are some practical steps we can do that will work.

It is realistic for the Congress to appropriate money, and then ask AID or the military related reconstruction, to do the impossible when the structural foundations of Afghanistan are based on the benefits of corruption.

So we will have gone from spending hundreds of millions of dollars at the Kajaki Dam that failed to hundreds of millions of dollars in this bridging project that looks like it is going to fail to yet another new way to spend more money…

The reason they ended it is because in training people how to detect corruption, they used the information to do corruption.

My question is, is it being done? In other words, we can conceive of these things, but there are so many impediments on a practical level in a country such as Afghanistan to do things that haven't been part of their tradition.

We just can't keep asking taxpayers to blow this money.

Do you believe that when a company that has been sued about a matter involving product safety... should be entitled to keep secret what that settlement was about?

A decision delayed is money and lives at risk.

If I were on the board of directors and I had an obligation to shareholders... I would want an answer to the question.

Sometimes you got to forget about principle and just do the right thing.

Attorney General Holder has been very clear with me and my fellow U.S. Attorneys that we need to be smarter on crime, not just tougher.

The real heroes here are the moms and the dads and the citizens of Rutland and of the State of Vermont who are stepping up to work together...

We will remain active and vigilant on the law enforcement side, but it is not enough.

But you know what? What we know is that when communities face their problems, it is the first step in solving their problems.

If we are going to maintain what it is we find so important to each of us, a sense of community, it means we have got to step up...

The choices have never been wider, but the cost has never been higher.

I could not agree more.

Our responsibility here more than anything else is to make certain that the missions that we set America on are worthy of the willingness of our civilians who become military people to make the ultimate sacrifice.

This democracy would never work if we didn't have citizens who were willing to put aside their own judgment when it comes to what America's engagement should be and defer to civilian leadership.

Our responsibility is to recognize that we have these Americans who sign up and volunteer, no matter what the mission may be.

Folks are going to gamble. They like to do it, and any way they can, they will.

The folks who have the card are starting to get a little frustrated. That is detrimental to our businesses and to them.

This program, the Nexus program, can be a win-win, because obviously it expedites the free flow and the quick passage.

There is no value in having a Nexus card if you have to stay in the standard line.