"If we can follow up just so that I can frame the question, this is from NASA yesterday about WARN Act notices..."
"Well, nothing is impossible, but if something becomes triply expensive, it might as well be impossible."
"There is a 98.7 percent probability of safely executing each flight."
"Generally, they have said that competition for dollars leads to low-cost estimation and unrealistic scheduling."
"Under the leadership of Chairman Levin and Ranking Member McCain, this committee broadly recognized those problems."
"I look forward to working with you on the many important issues under this subcommittee's jurisdiction."
"the common understanding on Capitol Hill--I think this is very fair to say--is that that would be paid to reduce the Federal debt and would be a permanent reduction of the initial $700 billion."
"I think the political rationale behind it is to avoid coming back to us for anything."
"I would love thoughts from any of you, including the GAO, about the suggestion by some that we do not have enough focus..."
"I do not mean to interrupt. But the best capable. What is the possibility of falling short of what is our expectation and defining a gap as anything short of that?"
"I just want to make sure we do it right and don't set deadlines or timetables or goals with PR in mind, versus substance, and basically put politics and PR ahead of substance."