"What disturbs me is--well, first of all, Administrator McCarthy, you had the ability to act when you find out that things aren't going right in these systems."
"She was getting vacation time bonuses, got the last one May 28th while--the regional administrator is getting vacation time bonuses while the kids are getting poisoned."
"This Mr. Del Toral should get a Congressional Gold Medal."
"The local job that they failed at the local level, they failed at the State level, and we failed at the Federal level."
"We were strong-armed. We were misled. We were kept on arm's length. We couldn't do our jobs effectively."
"They gagged Mr. Del Toral."
"Billions, just billions."
"But that is not a good answer because I am the best Representative in the 7th Congressional District. I am the only one."
"We have got lots of USAID that--tens of billions going in to a country that only has a $5 billion annual budget."
"When I was there, I was taken to Helmand Province. I went to half a dozen provinces or whatever around the country, and I remember the troops telling me look at the school, Mr. Mica. The school they p..."
"U.S. contractors were restricted so they are giving the stuff to Afghan contractors who we really couldn't monitor or go after criminally."