"The sheer carelessness of the Department is troubling and inexcusable, particularly given the risk to employee safety and mission readiness."
"Over the years that I have been fooling around with this question of management at the Department, we kept bumping up against resistance within the Department."
"I am going to try to urge him to do, and that is to name a good CEO, a person in charge of the daily operations of the Department."
"I find abhorrent that they have let this go to this extreme without remedying it."
"We have to disrupt that and change it."
"Do safety supports work? And if they do work, what do we need to enhance and change them?"
"We need a holistic, multipronged approach to the epidemic that CDC says we have."
"Doctors should avoid using powerful opioids as the first line of defense against pain, saying the risks from such drugs far outweigh the benefits for most people."
"We fought for years... to get the pharmaceutical companies to develop abuse-deterrent formulations."
"Some of our colleagues thinking that they were being tough on administrative costs, so we were shortsighted."
"We have to fund our role in that process."
"When Congress passed the RESTORE Act, they said that the money cannot be used for administration."