45 Quotes by Peter DeFazio

I said to Mr. Bowles, 'That would be like me saying to you that the only reason that you were an ardent supporter of fast track is because you're a very wealthy man with a very large stock portfolio and you're making money, tons of money, because of these trade policies,

I won't be flying out of Sioux Falls, ... Before 9-11, screeners had trouble in tests detecting fully assembled large caliber handguns and today that's not a problem.

I would just cancel the mission to Mars, ... I don't think we should pay a trillion dollars to go to Mars, as the president is proposing.

We're using 1970s technology -- it's not very good at finding bombs,

We're going to be tapping into Social Security trust fund for what you're asking for today, ... Let's have support for a modest security surcharge. How many people are going to turn down a ticket at $303 rather than $300? This is the same thing I've been hearing for 15 years.

We are outsourcing all of the United States industrial base to China. That also has national security along with economic implications in the future.

To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized.

easily concealed, easily smuggled, very inexpensive. And we've got to get ahead of this. We've got to do what we can to prevent their acquisition and usage.

It would have given him authority to do anything he wanted, anytime, anywhere.