45 Quotes by Peter DeFazio

The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.

Unfortunately it was tied up into a Christmas tree package, and it was take it or leave it - and you can't leave troops out in the cold.

We're looking at another kind of disaster to counties and schools across the country if this legislation isn't reauthorized,

If they (airports) want to bring in the private vendors, I think they need to provide their own insurance,

Given the large size of the illegal harvest, the relatively clear boundary (a steep ridgeline and road) ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight,

If it's good enough for 2 percent of the pilots, why not all the pilots?

We talked about the fact that we have done nothing really to secure the air side of the airport,