03/27/2012
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"I never thought much of improper payments until 2002... I noticed there was an increase in the level of improper payments."
"Remember the story about Willie Sutton? They used to say to Willie Sutton, 'Why do you rob banks?' He said, 'That is where the money is.'"
"At a time when many agencies are struggling with tight budgets and facing sequestration on the horizon, we just cannot afford to be making $125 billion in improper payments like we apparently made las..."
"I was stunned when I saw the number, the improper payments number, for 2014, because we had seen during a number of years that the number was going down beginning in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013."