I believe that as more Government money is pumped into the system, ... we are going to have more whistleblowers come forth.

I think it makes sense to fold oversight of the Bear Stearns and AIG bailouts into your office.

In these times of Federal financial intervention in the marketplace, we need heightened awareness about how taxpayer dollars are being spent.

The drug war will not be won on the streets.

He'll bring that hands-on perspective to ONDCP.

He is a cop's cop and his perspective was shaped controlling the streets in Florida, New York, and Washington State.

These multi-agency Federal local partnerships require cooperation and compromise.

Gil Kerlikowske is the right man to address these challenges.

we have for far too long ignored our public health sector in this country.

If there had been a HACCP plan in effect at this plant, how confident are you that that would have prevented this salmonella contamination?

I am concerned, Senator, that unless you address this structural problem where Dr. Sundlof is in charge of policy, but you have got someone over at the Office of Regulatory Affairs who actually manages who gets inspected in the food…

Well, why not just--since the food component at FDA, and I will ask Dr. Sundlof, maybe he doesn't know, it is a smaller part of FDA than the whole drug regime is--why don't you just move that over to the Food Safety Inspection Service?

Surely we can do better than that.

we haven't changed and updated our public health system to cope with this new distribution system.

I am nothing short of outraged at the increasing number of outbreaks of foodborne illnesses in our country.

we have an obligation, I think, to the American people to really look at the public health structure.

I know I have gone over. I just have one more thing I want to tie down here.

To say that food safety in this country is a patchwork system is just giving it too much credit.