John Kennedy actually said...

"The focus in government today is too much on how much money we are spending as opposed to what are the metrics, what are we getting for the money."

"I learned a lot, and it was very fair. You adjusted for all the different circumstances."

"What I am looking for is something pretty simple."

"Do you customarily, as a practice at CBO, continually look back and say, okay, we predicted this, it turned out this, this is what we got right, this is what we got wrong, here is how we can learn fro..."