I often say right here in this hearing room, if it is not perfect, make it better; everything I do I know I can do better.

Your continuing championing this issue is helpful for me.

Nobody is as smart as everybody.

The cost of the census is measured in billions and billions of dollars, and it is going up.

we need to really be thinking outside the box.

We do not hear that every day, do we?

This Subcommittee has fairly broad jurisdiction across a lot of different parts of our Federal Government.

When you say uncovering latent networks, I think I know what that means, but maybe not everybody does.

The biggest gold mine in the world is between our ears.

We are just completing our decennial census.

My hope is that OMB is going to be at least from afar riding herd on this.

I think the Recovery Board's work has shown us or provided for us a great example of how we can leverage both of these assets to produce real results.

Did you say this was an assignment or an undertaking that was deemed to be impossible by the intelligence community? Did you say that?

I was troubled by, Dr. Coburn, who sat here where Senator McCain sat for many years.

Insanity is described as doing the same thing over and over and over again expecting a different result and not getting it.

I suspect that a lot of Americans might be surprised that there was not already a single list of people or companies that the government should not be sending money to.

We had really troubling reports this year of the enumerators, the people actually going out and doing the counting, being harassed just trying to do their job.

So the intelligence community said we cannot do this or this cannot be done. You did it in less than 9 hours?