John McCain actually said...

"So since 2001--and we are in 2013--we are beginning to work through the problem. Is that what I can tell my constituents, Mr. Secretary?"

"How do I, Mr. Fanning, go tell the taxpayers of America in my State that the Air Force just wasted $1 billion on a program that obviously was a miserable failure?"

"you cannot continue these kinds of incredible, total loss of the taxpayers' dollars without there being an understandable backlash on the part of the taxpayers of America, which I believe will harm ou..."

"Why can you not? Why can we not penalize companies for failure to live up to the obligations of their contracts?"