You can't run around town telling everybody that you are out of money and that is the reason you can't do your job.

You can't do that, though, as the head of the agency, if it is about improving morale.

This is about the two of us working together to get better results for taxpayers.

Why would we cut customer service and redeploy those dollars elsewhere?

My concern is you are the Commissioner of the IRS, for you to go out and start telling people that this is a tax break for tax cheats is a very dangerous phrase.

I can't live with being taxed to death, and then even--you can't even die without paying taxes, because of a government that can't stop spending your money.

I have only been here four years. I have never seen this body do anything that addresses long-term debt.

Well, policy is always trumped by politics, and it is a shame. But we know it is coming.

I think for most people that I have talked to back home in Western Pennsylvania, most young people say, 'Look. I put money in out of every pay, but I am never going to see that money.'

Absolutely incredible. What I go back to is I think the main loss here is the loss of faith and trust we have in a form of government that is the gold standard for the world, yet we are violating our own citizens on an everyday basis and…

It is not only important. I have got to tell you it is far beyond important. Important is dismissive. It is critical.