"Are you suggesting that that figure in your testimony is strictly due to the broker contract? What about market conditions?"
"Who needs the GSA? Why shouldn't the Agency go to these broker contracts and do their own thing?"
"I mind someone throwing it in my face that we are saving some money and not showing me the bottom line where the savings are."
"Frankly, I think that the victims and the public is entitled to hear any interim step we can take, however minor."
"So should some other Federal agency have been charged as more and more cities and States developed mass transit systems?"
"This hearing is not about assigning cause. We don't have the slightest idea. Nobody could possibly know."
"Even if we give Mr. Rogoff the kind of perhaps authority he ought to have, I can tell you without fear of contradiction--leave aside the recession we are in, let's suppose we are in the false boom eco..."
"What Federal law prohibits you from acting?"
"Well, I mean, you would maintain it. Do you have any staff?"
"How many staff do you have?"
"You were generous in saying WMATA didn't have a lot of money to do what really needed to be done."