Tom Carper actually said...

"I must admit the news of your decision to leave this post as Director of the Census Bureau is bittersweet."

"Leadership has been the key."

"It gives more interactiveness as opposed to even a letter or a form in the mail."

"I believe, and have learned in my brief tenure here, that we cannot continue to do the things that we have always been doing, to the detriment of the American taxpayer."