We ended up with a balanced budget approach that worked on the defense side, defense spending, worked on domestic discretionary spending, worked on entitlements, and also revenues.

We need to change the thinking that if only we give a program a couple more years and a couple more billion dollars the program will ultimately be successful.

Now, more than ever we have to find the best value for our tax dollars, and I am amazed as I stay here longer as to how much we actually waste and how we do things and how we really should be doing it better.

All right.

Fewer, yes.

That is not the kind of behavior that taxpayers expect, and that is not what they should get.

What we are trying to do is to improve our ability, when fraud occurs or when we just make overpayments, mistakes, to be able to go out and recover--after the fact, recover the money from those that have been overpaid or who have defrauded…

None of us escape blame. And if we are going to turn this around, all of us have a role to play.

When you say poor performance, by the contractor?

Systemic cost growth jeopardizes the ability of the United States to execute a long-term, coherent, and stable strategy.

For every dollar you would put into developing more technology, you would probably save a lot more money in product development.