Tom Carper actually said...

"I think we have a moral imperative to do what is right, the right thing to do, particularly looking out for the least of these in our society."

"it is not enough to just cut, cut, cut but they have to be encouraged and incentivized to find ways"

"Our role is to do oversight and we focus on it big time and we will continue to do this."

"the reason why we are in trouble in our Defense Department is because we have no significant, good metrics with which to manage the decisions we make."