Tom Daschle Homeland Quotations

One of the responsibilities of his job is to increase the confidence in this country about the importance that our country is placing on homeland security, that we understand its complexities and the difficult challenges we face, ... But if he can't be an advocate before Congress, it's hard for me to understand how he can be an advocate before the country.

I think that it's so critical when you make a request to the Congress to authorize and appropriate $38 billion for homeland security, somebody ought to come up and explain just how you're going to spend it, ... Those issues are going unanswered in large measure because Mr. Ridge refuses to testify. We just have to find a way hopefully without the use of coercion to have those questions answered for the record.

But now a memo forecasts administration plans for billions of dollars of cuts to America's veterans, schools, health care, homeland defense, worker-training programs and medical research,