"I hope that this hearing will give us an opportunity to thoroughly explore the problems and difficulties being faced by what I considered to be one of our great national treasures, that is the Postal Service."
"The U.S. Postal Service is currently the most dependable, expansive mail delivery system in the world."
"If that is the future here, if that is the future next year, do you think you deserve a bonus for that performance?"
"Are you going to offer any type of incentive to any of these employees?"
"Let me ask, one of the other legs of the stool that Postmaster General Potter had thrown out there was consolidation of some of these post offices."
"we are going to have to decide on a course of action and we are going to have to get to it"
"I compared the practice of giving bonuses in the financial services industry to people who were losing money to the practice of giving bonuses to executives at the Post Office at a time when they are ..."
"If you are going to ask the American people to absorb pain and closings and increased debt, there needs to be some type of reflection in the management team that acknowledges we are in some tough time..."
"I understand the idea of comparable salary. However, I don't agree with the premise that just because AIG or Merrill Lynch is giving people bonuses for driving the company into the ground that we shou..."
"Will there be any attempt to offer any incentive to get people out the door?"
"the Postal Service is one of the most respected Government institutions in this country"