"I was encouraged by the October meeting and that engagement."
"I would hope that you have a way of measuring and assessing this in a matter of weeks and months instead of waiting a long time to assess what they are doing."
"I know we are pretty much out of time, but I know that Members of Congress have an obligation to be constructive, have an obligation to try to undertake efforts that will lead to a better relationship..."
"The most important metric is a reduction in casualties."
"The good news is we are doing a much better job of finding, detecting, and also protecting our soldiers."
"I juxtapose that effort by our government, our military, our scientists here, with what I hope the Pakistanis put a better effort forth on."
"I am going to do my best to try to continue to be constructive, but I am also going to be, as we all must be, vigilant and determined to get results, not just promises."
"Look. To be skeptical--it is part of my job to be skeptical. It is part of your job as well."
"I just cannot imagine what these two soldiers and thousands like them have been through when they get exposed to that kind of explosion."
"I am looking forward to seeing a supplemental that is well crafted and, I hope, properly offset, because we also have a fiscal crisis of enormous magnitude."
"I will be very interested in seeing what the net effect of these changes are because we know that the interest rate component will reflect a significant adverse valuation here."
"before the taxpayers are faced with greater losses, I believe we must determine how the FHA got into this position, Mr. Secretary, and how it intends to get out."
"It is a pretty large effect that comes from the difference in the interest rate."
"the drop in the capital ratio was expected to be temporary, and that it would return above 2 percent within the next 2 or 3 years, even if FHA were to make no policy changes at all."
"I am confident though we can get this done, that the Congress of the United States can come together and successfully reach the compromise that we need that puts us on a path to fiscal sustainability ..."
"Sometimes it is in the testimony. Sometimes we ask about it; sometimes we do not."
"I wanted to return to an issue that Senator Cardin raised initially with regard to women and in these countries where it is particularly difficult to put in place strategies to allow them to be more a..."
"And, generally speaking, our biggest problems are with the dual eligibles between the age of 20 and 40."
