Eleanor Norton actually said...

"Mr. Tangherlini has been the administrator of the District of Columbia, a very big and complicated city; done the same thing at Metro."

"I view that to read that you could not have put people on administrative leave and you could not have fired people until the final report."

"Ms. Johnson, you are very experienced in Government. This is why the President appointed you to be administrator of GSA."

"I believe in good personnel, but I don't believe that the Government or any other agency or private business can always assure that there will be precisely the people in charge who will keep things go..."