"So there has to be something that has to change, and I agree with you that we can have these process changes, which I am for and I proposed some of them, but really it is also political will."
"the public desperately wants you to get out of partisan attack mode and start working together to find solutions."
"I cannot think of a better way to describe how dysfunctional Congress is with its power of the purse."
"Missing appropriation deadlines have consequences. It causes uncertainty in agencies and delays plans, which may increase cost to the taxpayer."
"We spent $79 million on an Embassy in Mazar-e-Sharif. Never opened."
"I think there is an argument to be made that our national security is actually made more perilous the more we spend and the longer we stay there."
"$45 million on a natural-gas gas station in the defense budget because we are greening-up Afghanistan."
"You know, after 16 years, thousands of lives, probably a trillion dollars spent, the Afghans do not seem to be able to defend themselves."
"If you throw more money at Medicaid now and you do not have rules on prescribing or you do not have significant changes on prescribing, you are going to get more of the problem."
"I think, though, overall we are going to need a much more dramatic change in how we prescribe."
"I think we can argue that the increase in opioids that we have seen with Medicaid expansion might be unintended, but I do not think we can argue that it is unforeseen."