"If the IRS came to you and said, 'We are going to do your taxes for you this year, Mr. Wright. You owe $4 million in income taxes, but we cannot tell you how we came up with the figure.' Do you think ..."
"That would not be a fair action by the IRS."
"A woman has the unfettered right to abort at any time, for any reason, up to the moment of birth."
"We went from 12,000 homes damaged to 11 as a result of your good work."
"Sometimes I think we don't spend enough time, our shortcoming, not yours, analyzing the benefit, that we focus too much on the cost."
"America has been blessed in many ways and sometimes I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, maybe a little bit of both."
"If your folks have this ability to put a value on the potential losses that we are averting, why doesn't that play a bigger role in your cost-benefit analysis?"
"The real figure is $2.73, which your work has prevented, $2.73 trillion in damages."
"The price of the Comite River Diversion Canal has gone up $500 million. How? I know inflation, but wow!"
"How we going to get this price down?"
"In America you can believe what you want, but I am a big believer in free will and responsibility."
"I agree with just about everything my colleague said, except for the part where she criticized Republicans."