"I am trying not to look backwards. I am trying to be prospective."
"If I had to start, I would blow up the place, give it to Mr. Dowd and say, let's start all over again."
"Chairwoman Norton, I applaud your leadership role and the effort to strike the right balance between security and access to our Federal buildings."
"Absolutely. That bothered us. Two months to take down a sign saying that a monumental public possession of the United States of America is private property."
"I am having a hard time understanding why we are just studying some of these matters..."
"I want to take this opportunity to commend the employee representatives of the unions before us..."
"Well, that is very important to have on the record."
"The Postal Service is just too slow. You are going to have to reach out to communities."
"I have looked closely at this 5 day week largely because it is one of the few things I think the public is not going to throw their hands up at."
"I agree with Mr. Burrus that watch out for calling the decline and fall altogether of the Post Office."
"You see that there have been breaches of national security through what is only politely called inadvertent file sharing."