"if you are going to stick with a story, it is like I have told my kids: If you are going to lie once, you--or start telling stories once, then you are going to have to tell the story the whole way through."
"the biggest thing that I hear from most of our folks is they just--they don't trust the government anymore."
"If we could lead in these areas, whether it be Qatar, Saudi Arabia--let us just lay it on the table--these areas where we could do the funding sources through 'charitable organizations, non-charitable..."
"part of this trust factor is going to our own inspector general process, going to our own internal checklist and making sure that we are not, for just the sake of what I call busy work, doing that."
"There is only one agency that unites democrats and republicans, and that is distrust of the EPA."
"The public does not trust EPA. Farmers do not trust the EPA not to overreach. Congress does not trust the EPA."
"We can do it tersely, efficiently, and get it over with."
"The reason this program concerns me is it discriminates against one type of technology, computer-implemented inventions, over all others."
"I don't think that we should really be treating one person's property rights differently because they made their innovation using software rather than hardware."
"there is an ambiguity to that situation."
"the Administration's unilateral amnesty policies have created legal ambiguity for the status of illegal aliens."