"The agency needs discipline and it needs an outsider in some position there to be sure that we are not jeopardizing the President's life."
"We must discipline that agency and make it work like it is supposed to."
"I urge you to work with the Budget Committees and the authorizing committees to help lift the yoke off the back of the younger generations of hard-working Americans."
"it is critical, I don't even want to think about what happens if the Russians decide that they want to change the way they operate with us."
"I have faith in American industry, I always have."
"there is not that I am aware of any concern that we will not be able to meet this time line as long as we can meet the budget number."
"this is an effort that is joined in with the Congress. This is not something that the administration just decided to go do."
"That is completely unacceptable to cause a young man to lose the sight in his eyes because of bureaucratic ineptitude."
"I have heard that for 8 years now from different Secretaries, VA Secretaries as well as DOD Secretaries."
"We are pouring money at the problem and why can't we get it fixed?"
"I have yet to see one marble roll down the hill."
"I first want to pay tribute to the Commissioner for six years of service at this chore, which I think is a modern-day record if not an all-time record tenure."