"What we need to do is look at the mission of the agency, what it is that the President wants to do, but also we need to look at the three R's, which is to reinvigorate our Civil Service."
"I want you to know that throughout your agency, there are what I call the worker bees, those wonderful people that under the old pay scale were the GS-5s through the 15s."
"The 2010 census must remain free of political tampering."
"So if you are from Arkansas--like we in Maryland have the Maryland Broadband Cooperative, which is like a little TVA for broadband in our rural communities--when would they be able to apply for grants..."
"We are very firm that we must guard vulnerable populations against any potential predators."
"Mr. Secretary, are you confident that, number one, the census is going to happen?"
"I believe that some of the issues around contracting out, lack of resources and so on, were at times very demoralizing to our staffs."
"The census should be conducted in a fair and accurate manner for all political parties and people."
"We want the FBI to know how proud we are in how they fight to protect Americans."
"Thank you very much, and the record will so show that."
"I also am going to reiterate what Senator Shelby said about the joint task forces."