45 Quotes by Bennie Thompson

People just looked at him, ... He was the first speaker, and it sort of went downhill after that. People felt we are not going to get the truth here.

Like that day four Septembers ago, we once again find ourselves asking, 'How could this have happened? ... The answer is painful, but it must be acknowledged: we simply were unprepared.

That was just a boneheaded statement from someone who should be in charge of this situation, ... The president will have to change the leadership so that a response this bad will never, never happen again for the American people.

That's twice the cost and for the taxpayers. That's not right. If you're going to do business with Mississippi folks and the law says you should do it then that should happen,

to look into this contract and see if there is a legitimacy to my concerns that we may be paying twice the price for this product.

what you see is not really what is.

The president has talked about small businesses being the engine of our economy, but when the time for sound bites is over his administration still uses the same backroom deals to take care of their friends,

It would be one thing if the department didn't identify security lapses in the first place, but a more troubling situation when they make promises to the American people and then leave them unfulfilled.

It was too little, too late. We missed the mark.