"We have to get back there. And the general question is how do we get back there, where we can confidently tell the American people that if you work hard you can expect a growth in your wages and your ..."
"I would hope that when you go to the Federal Reserve, that you would quickly ensure that this appropriate self-analysis is going forward."
"Now we are desperate for capital and desperate people do desperate things."
"We need to move away from supplementals, I think the Secretary has said that, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has said that--I certainly agree."
"I don't think anyone knows more about the intricacies of the budget and the institutional culture of the Pentagon than Bill Lynn."
"He is superbly prepared for this job, and someone that I admire immensely."
"I appreciate the opportunity to be with you."
"It is really bad process to begin with. And then it ends up with really unfortunate results."
"Yes, I am sort of preaching to the choir here, I am sure."
"Oh, you have more. It would be more per person."
"Rhode Island, as the Ocean State, has a long tradition of environmental stewardship."
"My information is that dispute does not extend to EPA. I think that the career people know pretty well what has happened to them in the last 8 years."
"I would also advise you to watch out for OMB. We have received repeated evidence that OMB has become sort of the political bully boy influencing agency decisionmaking in very often I think inappropria..."
"It is a great privilege for me to be here today to introduce Scott Gould to this Committee as President Obama's nominee for Deputy Secretary of the Veterans Administration."
"There is no likelihood, I think, of it getting better. It is likely to get worse, if anything."
"The entire agency process had in effect been a sham, that the result was willful ignorance triumphant."
"I think OMB was the political fixer for the Administration in the agency regulatory process in the past."
"The Union of Concerned Scientists pointing out systematic interference with EPA scientists, 60 percent of them indicating that they had been interfered with in their work for political purposes."
