this is a shared responsibility. This is a team sport, and we are part of the team.

I just do not want you to waste my money.

We are trying to do a whole lot better than that.

find out what does not work and do less of that.

We are on track right now, over the next 25 years, to actually be spending more money in DOD for compensation and benefits than we are going to have.

I do not care whether George W. Bush was the President or Barack Obama is the President...

some day Democrats, we are going to be in the Minority. We will have a Republican President...

One is we need to work on our entitlement programs to save the programs, to make sure they are going to be around for our kids and grandchildren.

I like to say--this is Albert Einstein speaking through me--in adversity lies opportunity.

We also talked about an effort to provide a more seamless transition for following the health care of military members.

The work that we do here for the American people is hugely important.

Did we make enough progress? No, I do not think so. Did we make some progress? Yes, we did.

It is really weird that we do these program provisions and bills and amendments, and instead of getting credit for saving money, it comes to us from CBO as an added cost, which just drives us crazy.

there are still gaping holes in this Administration.

The Constitution mandates an explanation of where we spend our money and how we spend it.

Thank you for being so faithful in your attendance. This is really an important hearing.

health care costs were killing us. Unless we figured out how to get our arms around those, for the government and the private sector as well, it is going to do us in.

I think that Senator Isakson's aptly pointing out the terrible affliction... of suicide in the military attests to that.