90 percent of us fall in the middle of the bell curve, and in a big organization it can either lean this way to the leaders or it can lean that way to the slackers.

I think it is pretty clear that contractors have filled that gap, have enabled us to fight both wars without a draft.

I find that people are pretty smart, and they would much rather have a government that is setting goals and sometimes falling short than a government that is not setting any goals and is instead slipping backward.

A lot of times when the press would initially report on this, they would make it seem like it was a firing squad.

I do not think there is another Governor in America that has a delegation as strong as our delegation is in Maryland.

Senator Warner brings a wealth of experience in Government management to his position as the Senator from Virginia.

We have exceeded some goals, and some we have not hit, but always we move forward in an open and transparent way.

We have not done a lot of privatization because of the Stat process.

Robert Kennedy once said that there is no basic inconsistency between ideals and realistic possibilities, no separation between the deepest desires of the heart and of mind and the rational application of human effort to human problems.

I personally appreciate, Senator Warner, when you were Governor Warner, that you took the time to spend with me and gave me some great advice.

I thank Senator Warner for his leadership.

Had we not done that, we would all be sitting in the middle, in the depths of the second Great Depression instead of debating whether we were moving quickly enough into recovery.