“I believe before they do anything substantive down there to rebuild, really rebuild, they should strengthen those levees ... otherwise, with hurricanes coming along, we could be right where we started,”
“[But Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, said he is willing to give Pitt the benefit of the doubt. The SEC chairman] is a very able person, ... Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer.”
“I plan to work with the Senate leadership and my colleagues to develop a comprehensive approach to address and ultimately pay for this reconstruction effort. I am willing to do my part, but it is essential that we all reexamine and reprioritize our spending as a result of this natural disaster.”
“I think the basic tenet that we learned is a lack of coordination and sharing of information, different cultures in the community of intelligence, ... We have done our job, and now we have got to do more legislatively and the people who run the intelligence community have got to do theirs.”
“We need to know what happened, how it happened and what we can do about it. And then, after that, I think we have to look forward, ... I think it's going to take a restructuring, legislatively, of our entire intelligence ... communities.”
